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Yeah I have to agree...Define growth....Dont' think so. As someone who is looking for a job but currently has one. I get more call backs from other states that my own home state. NOw that's sad.
^ ^ ^ And it is the type of jobs that are opening . . . many are service line jobs. Manufacturing is basically gone . . . and the high tech jobs are not seeing the % of growth that was the hallmark of the state (other than textile and furniture manufacturing, wh/ is nearly non-existent now) back in the 90s and early 2000s.
Don't forget the near complete loss of the textile and furniture industries. I don't think NC has completely recovered from that at all.
Yeppers. I responded to the comment above yours and so didn't see that you had already mentioned those two industries, which hit this state hard, and a recent report reveals that many of those laid off from the textile industry demise have never replaced their jobs.
100 people to be added for August in Wake County, one of the Triangle area's largest employers, WakeMed Health & Hospitals, will lay off more than 100 in fields varying from nurses to food prep workers.
One reason I'm voting the legislature out. They have done everything BUT look at fixing the State's economy. And this is with a "pro-business" governor. Really, really horrible for this State politically right now.
Hell, we are one of the few State's still LOSING JOBS!!!!
Not surprised at all and quite frankly its really a sad state of affairs right now in North Carolina. An yet people still are intent on relocating here thus driving the competition up for good jobs....the little that we do have.
Some people just don't understand good jobs go to best candidates or the company goes out of business.....
you can't get it, and you try to make sure others can't get it... That's why the unemployment rate is so high......
While the national unemployment rate is going down and despite adding 8,200 jobs in July, the North Carolina unemployment rate rose one-tenth of one percent to 8.9% last month, tying for third-worst with Rhode Island and only lower than Illinois and Nevada. The national unemployment rate in July was 7.4%, down from 7.6% in June.
Local unemployment rates for July are scheduled to be released Aug. 28.
A few have hit the nail on the head here...while the folks in Rawlee go back and forth over their ideologies...the rural landscape of NC continues to take a beating. The top 10 cities in NC are pretty good in terms of employment...but go try to find a job in Clinton or in Laurinburg or in Shelby or in Kinston...or in Whiteville/Chadbourn The State has pretended that its small cities and rural communities are in good shape. In reality they have never been and have just been coasting. The unemployment rates in these smaller areas are dragging down the numbers for NC as a whole.
And what does the legislature do in response...tear into state programs that help small cities, strip municipalities of certain abilities to grow and grow revenue, not deliver many incentives to the rural landscape and not fund infrastructure (like the ports) that could help the underserved areas. In one statistic, NC has 10 of the 20 poorest counties in the COUNTRY. No job growth there.
The growing municipalities have masked NC's real problems. Everyone in Rawlee is concerned about Raleigh and not concerned about helping communities with what they need. Help them clean up their problems, they have little to no money. The rural landscape is slowly becoming a ghost town...don't believe me...drive through Bethel or Chadbourn or Ahoskie sometime. We need municipal and rural policies and funding that cleans up the mess, provides adequate infrastructure and increases property values.
For July, the number of people employed decreased 13,735 over the month to 4,278,516, and increased 14,902 over the year.
The number of people unemployed increased 1,527 over the month to 417,841, and declined 36,644 over the year.
Seasonally adjusted Total Nonfarm industry employment, as gathered through the monthly establishment survey, increased 8,200 to 4,053,600 in July.
The major industry with the largest over-the-month increase was Trade, Transportation & Utilities at 5,200, followed by Leisure & Hospitality Services, 2,700; Financial Activities, 2,400; Professional & Business Services, 1,700; Manufacturing, 1,200; Other Services, 700; Information, 200; and Construction, 100.
Major industries to experience decreases were Government, 5,300; and Education & Health Services, 700. Mining & Logging employment remained flat over the month.
Raw number of warm bodies signed onto company payrolls?
What about the number of paid RT hours on those company payrolls?
How about $$dollar value of wages per employee?
If you weren't aware, NC was once at 10.5%. How hard is the word "growth" to understand?
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