Local Paper Front Page–South Carolina Unemployment rate rising again

This July was no better than the last for South Carolina job-seekers, and the unemployment rate is rising again.

Across the state and in the greater Charleston area, joblessness is back up to about where it was last summer. South Carolina is now tied with Michigan for third-highest unemployment rate in the nation, behind housing meltdown epicenters Nevada and California.

“It doesn’t give you a lot of hope,” said West Ashley resident Mary Catherine James, 51, who has been job-hunting since April. “It’s very stressful.”

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Posted in * Economics, Politics, * South Carolina, Economy, Labor/Labor Unions/Labor Market, The Credit Freeze Crisis of Fall 2008/The Recession of 2007--

2 comments on “Local Paper Front Page–South Carolina Unemployment rate rising again

  1. deaconjohn25 says:

    How come the article didn’t mention the thousands of Boeing SC jobs the Obama Administration is trying to destroy there on behalf of the labor unions???? What happens to jobs in SC if the Obama controlled NLRB forces Boeing out of SC in a corrupt use of their power to attempt to control where businesses locate their plants and factories.

  2. David Keller says:

    I am flabbergasted that an economics professor thinks that infusion of government money helped during the depression. The more Roosevelt tried the wosre things got (sound familiar?). The Japanese got us out of the depression. #1–I think reporters are almost all extremely liberal. I suspect this guy doesn’t want to mention the heavy handed tactics of the NLRB because he basically supports them; he just can’t keep working in Charleston if he is open about it.