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Thread: BLS Unemployment Statistis, or, No wonder I can't find a job

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    Default BLS Unemployment Statistis, or, No wonder I can't find a job

    http://www.bls.gov/web/metro/laummtrk.htm

    Our current unemployment rate is 18.2%. Or, as a friend put it, almost 1 in 5 people.

    Awesome.

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    That's really quite a lot of people out of work.
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    At 8.9% we're slightly below national average. 18.2% is devastating. I noticed that southern Jersey is doing really poorly also.

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    Damn, central California's really taking a beating.

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    Shit. That is really, really bad. How has central California not descended into riots and roving bands of angry homeless people?

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    You mean moreso than usual?

    California's central valley is a unique place. It's populated largely by recent immigrants from Mexico and Asia, and the descendants of Dust Bowl Okies.

    Basically a population of people that is used to being shit on, and may not be aware that not everywhere sucks as bad as it does here.

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