NYC, NY State Unemployment Rates Rise

Sigh: With more employers cutting jobs, the NY State unemployment rate is the highest since April 2004. The rate rose from 5.7% in October to 6.1% in November. And in NYC, the unemployment was 6.3% in November, up from 5.7% in October, thanks to almost 16,000 jobs shed from financial firms.

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NYC, NY State Unemployment Rates Rise

And peanut butter and fluff is great food...
Anymore brain busters?

;P

If I owned a business, I'd leave the state. I'm already looking to leave myself.

The new budget penalizes people who work and rewards those on welfare.

Don't be surprised when there are more and more people sitting in the applecart than pulling it.

Does Madoff count in those stats?

And they think raising taxes and MTa charges and no property tax rebates and ............. is going to solve the problem? I see NYC as a 3rd world country within a city by next Christmas.

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Or in other words, back to the 70s & 80s we go.

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