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Unemployment rates by state, February 2016
Posted on 4/6/16 at 5:16 pm
Posted on 4/6/16 at 5:16 pm
Yes, I only posted this because Arkansas' unemployment hit an all time low since records have been kept.
We're booming right now. It's pretty cool.
We're booming right now. It's pretty cool.
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Posted on 4/6/16 at 5:32 pm to wmr
Big 2 
Posted on 4/6/16 at 5:51 pm to wmr
Thank God for Alaska
Posted on 4/6/16 at 6:57 pm to wmr
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Arkansas' unemployment hit an all time low since records have been kept.
Dang, that's pretty cool.
Edit: And I have a hard time understanding how anyone could remain unemployed for an extended amount of time. But's for another thread.
This post was edited on 4/6/16 at 6:59 pm
Posted on 4/6/16 at 7:03 pm to wmr
Not sure why Tennessee and Florida have the same percentage of unemployed(4.9%), but Tennessee is colored green and Florida blue.
Oh well, under 5% club checking in
Oh well, under 5% club checking in
This post was edited on 4/6/16 at 7:06 pm
Posted on 4/6/16 at 7:17 pm to wmr
Numbers generated by the US Department of Labor, sounds legit. 
Posted on 4/6/16 at 7:24 pm to wmr
Why they gotta make the states with the highest unemployment brown ?!? The ones with the lowest unemployment are practically colored Caucasian ?!? Racism is everywhere guys.. You just have to look hard enough.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 8:55 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
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And I have a hard time understanding how anyone could remain unemployed for an extended amount of time. But's for another thread.
I know. I've worked my entire life. Locally, we've reached that critical "popular" point where there are tattooed and pierced 20-something white kids panhandling at big intersections now. I want to scream at them that they live in a metro with like 3% unemployment and get a fricking job.
Last week, I watched this one stupid POS, white kid, maybe 24, with a string holding his sagging jeans in place at "just the right sag point" walk down a grass median to a stoplight. MFer pulls up his sagging jeans, whips a cardboard "Hungry/homeless" sign out of his napsack and starts collecting from the bleeding hearts.
That kid wouldn't even need to take out his gauges or pull up his pants to work at Burger King, or a meat-packing plant.
This post was edited on 4/6/16 at 8:57 pm
Posted on 4/6/16 at 8:58 pm to wmr
He probably makes more per day doing that.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 9:07 am to wmr
NWA unemployment is 3.3%. You can't push it much lower before it starts hurting businesses because they can't fill their openings. I just read an article that the NWA metro labor force grew 7 percent this February over last February, for a year to year increase of 17,236 of workers. That's nuts for an area this size. Growth here has accelerated over last year and the year before.
Boom times for sure.
Also, we don't have any petro/fossil fuel-related jobs around here, so those numbers are for real, and probably sustainable.
Boom times for sure.
Also, we don't have any petro/fossil fuel-related jobs around here, so those numbers are for real, and probably sustainable.
This post was edited on 4/7/16 at 9:09 am
Posted on 4/7/16 at 1:14 pm to wmr
Do you have the U6 rates as well?
Posted on 4/7/16 at 2:14 pm to Robert Goulet
I've never been so triggered in my life.
Posted on 4/7/16 at 2:14 pm to wmr
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That kid wouldn't even need to take out his gauges or pull up his pants to work at Burger King, or a meat-packing plant.
This is basically it. People who are "too good" to work in a pink collar industry. Seriously, as far as employment goes, living in NWA is like living life on Easy mode. You can make a legitimately decent living at Walmart without even a college degree (moving up high enough will eventually require you to have one, of course), and the job security at a place like Walmart is unreal. At this point, the only thing that's bringing Walmart down is the hand of God. And he's going to have to use his good hand.
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