Metro Albany’s unemployment rate declines to 8.6 percent in April
Tweet Special to the Journal ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that metro Albany’s unemployment rate declined to 8.6 percent in April, down three-tenths of a percentage point from 8.9 percent in March. The rate was 9.2 percent in April a year ago.
Read More →Georgia’s unemployment rate declines to 8.4 percent in March
Tweet Special to the Journal ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that Georgia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dipped to 8.4 percent in March, the lowest rate since December 2008. The rate was down two-tenths of a percentage point from 8.6 percent in February and seven-tenths of a percentage point from 9.1 percent [...]
Read More →Metro Albany’s unemployment rate declines to 9.2 percent in February
Tweet ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that metro Albany’s unemployment rate declined to 9.2 percent in February, down five-tenths of a percentage point from 9.7 percent in January. The rate was 9.9 percent in February a year ago.
Read More →What’s to be done about unemployment rate?
Tweet Earlier today, we reported here that Albany’s unemployment rate rose to 9.7 percent for December of this year. That was up from 9.2 percent in November, though it was down from the 9.8 percent it was in December of 2011. The question is, what is to be done about it? First, let’s note that [...]
Read More →Unemployment Insurance benefit “checks” phasing out in Georgia; Replaced with electronic payments
Tweet ATLANTA — The Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) announced today that all unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in Georgia will be paid electronically and that paper checks will no longer be issued, effective next week. The GDOL has begun mailing the new UI Way2Go Debit MasterCard® to current recipients of UI benefits paid by paper [...]
Read More →Southwest Georgia’s jobless rate declines to 9.0 percent in September, Albany’s at 9.4 percent
Tweet ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that the preliminary unemployment rate in the Southwest Georgia area declined to 9.0 percent in September, down four-tenths of a percentage point from a revised 9.4 percent in August. The rate was 10 percent in September 2011.
Read More →Fixing Unemployment Means Fixing Our Perceptions Of Work
Tweet Mike Rowe is the host of The Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs show. Depending on your viewing preferences, he may also be best known as the pitchman for the Ford Motor Company. And in his spare time, he operates a company called Mike Rowe Works. He describes it as a small California company that is [...]
Read More →Metro Albany’s jobless rate rises to 10.5 percent in July
Tweet Staff Reports Atlanta, Ga. – The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that the preliminary unemployment rate in metro Albany rose to 10.5 percent in July, up two-tenths of a percentage point from 10.3 percent in June. The rate was 10.9 percent in July 2011. The rate increased because the labor grew by 90 [...]
Read More →Georgia’s jobless rate jumps to 9.3 percent in July
Tweet Special to the Journal ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that Georgia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 9.3 percent in July, up three-tenths of a percentage point from 9.0 percent in June. The jobless rate was 10 percent in July a year ago.
Read More →‘No’ to more taxation
Tweet As far as taxes go, I’m generally in favor of sales taxes. They have the benefit of being a bit fairer as well as being easier to not have to pay. That makes them more voluntary than other forms of taxation. However, I’m urging voters to vote against the T-SPLOST referendum on our [...]
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