Re: Hispanic Immigrants Drive Unemployment in Florida to Record Levels

[climber]

On Mar 26, 3:38 pm, Steve from Colorado <gass...@hushmail.com> wrote:
>  fl-unemployment-february-20100326
>
> Florida's unemployment hit 12.2 percent in February, the highest rate
> on record, soaring past even the rates recorded in the 1973-1975
> recession, the state work force agency said Friday.
>
> February's rate rose a 0.2 percentage point from the January revised
> rate of 12 percent. More than 1.26 million people are out of work in
> the state.
>
> In South Florida, the unemployment rate remained nearly level in
> February with a month earlier, with Broward County at 10.8 percent
> compared with a revised 10.9 percent for January; Palm Beach County at
> 12.4 percent compared with a revised 12.5 percent; and Miami-Dade
> County at 11.2 percent, up from a revised 11.0 percent in January.
>
> Unemployment in all three counties is still up significantly from the
> same month a year earlier, when the rates ranged from 8.0 percent to
> 8.3 percent.
>
> Florida's unemployment is now near the peak of 12.3 percent forecast
> for midsummer, according to Florida's Economic Estimating Conference,
> a group of state labor experts. The comparable national unemployment
> rate is 9.7 percent for February.
>
> Florida's total nonagricultural employment in February 2010 is
> 7,173,200, representing a gain of 26,300 jobs (+0.4 percent) over the
> month and a job loss of 211,500 jobs, or -2.9 percent, compared with
> February 2009. This is the first time since November 2007 that the
> over-the-month change was positive.
>
> Copyright © 2010, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
>
> http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/fl-unemployment-february-2010032...

Worthless government lacks will to close border. Washington supported
by the
slimebag element of the business "community". Bring everthing down.

climber

http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/ The Occidental Observer

[Beam Me Up Scotty]

You mean Obama is screwing everyone.