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My state is Illinois. But I live in an area where unemployment is extremely low. I also have a job interview today, and another one possibly in the pipeline 🙂
 
Dasm, my states, (Ohio & Michigan) are way down at the bottom. Too many people relying on the big companies to provide manufacturing jobs. But the good news is both states are doing a lot of technical training, community colleges everywhere are swollen with people upgrading thier skills. Perhaps when the jobs come back, they will be more technical instead of all the brain dead assembly line crap we've relied on for decades.
 
my state is at 3.6%, but my hometown is under 2%, but its still hard to find a decent job. Service industry is booming but thats about it.
 
Originally posted by: Train
Dasm, my states, (Ohio & Michigan) are way down at the bottom. Too many people relying on the big companies to provide manufacturing jobs. But the good news is both states are doing a lot of technical training, community colleges everywhere are swollen with people upgrading thier skills. Perhaps when the jobs come back, they will be more technical instead of all the brain dead assembly line crap we've relied on for decades.
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Ohio's tech jobs are non-existant in the cleveland area. Northeast Ohio is in bad Shape.
 
Washington - 5.6% Now, this still isn't bad in historical perspective, just not as good as the 3% we saw in the 90's.

Of course, it will be better next week. I start my new job on monday! 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Train
Dasm, my states, (Ohio & Michigan) are way down at the bottom. Too many people relying on the big companies to provide manufacturing jobs. But the good news is both states are doing a lot of technical training, community colleges everywhere are swollen with people upgrading thier skills. Perhaps when the jobs come back, they will be more technical instead of all the brain dead assembly line crap we've relied on for decades.
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The "technical" jobs in Michigan are non-existent. Compuware and EDS are laying people off left and right. I'm not sure what kind of skills you are going to acquire at a community college.
 
Originally posted by: BarneyFife
Originally posted by: Train
Dasm, my states, (Ohio & Michigan) are way down at the bottom. Too many people relying on the big companies to provide manufacturing jobs. But the good news is both states are doing a lot of technical training, community colleges everywhere are swollen with people upgrading thier skills. Perhaps when the jobs come back, they will be more technical instead of all the brain dead assembly line crap we've relied on for decades.
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The "technical" jobs in Michigan are non-existent. Compuware and EDS are laying people off left and right. I'm not sure what kind of skills you are going to acquire at a community college.
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Interesting, both California and New York are higher than the national average. Both of them being traditionally liberal states, and states which Kerry won, I'd imagine they have fairly liberal state governments. Now if liberals are better able to create jobs, why is this so?

Any thoughts?
 
Arkansas 5.5% Bush
New York 5.5% kerry
Texas 5.5% Bush
Missouri 5.6% Bush
Washington 5.6% Kerry
Alabama 5.7% Bush
California 5.9% Kerry
Illinois 6.0% Kerry
Mississippi 6.0% Bush
Ohio 6.0% Bush
Michigan 6.8% Kerry
South Carolina 6.9% Bush
Oregon 7.3% Kerry
Alaska 7.6% Bush
District of Columbia 7.9% Kerry

Seems liek both kerry and Bush states have problems with above average unemployment.
 
Yep. So why do people insist that somehow Democrats are able to help the economy more than Republicans? Seems to me that neither is able to create jobs out of thin air like they claim.
 
Originally posted by: smashp
Originally posted by: Train
Dasm, my states, (Ohio & Michigan) are way down at the bottom. Too many people relying on the big companies to provide manufacturing jobs. But the good news is both states are doing a lot of technical training, community colleges everywhere are swollen with people upgrading thier skills. Perhaps when the jobs come back, they will be more technical instead of all the brain dead assembly line crap we've relied on for decades.
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Ohio's tech jobs are non-existant in the cleveland area. Northeast Ohio is in bad Shape.
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Cleveland is a sinking pit, sorry, the people there need to wake up. Move to Columbus, youll have much better luck. Or if you are willing to cross state lines, try Detroit, pretty tech friendly.

 
Originally posted by: BarneyFife
Originally posted by: Train
Dasm, my states, (Ohio & Michigan) are way down at the bottom. Too many people relying on the big companies to provide manufacturing jobs. But the good news is both states are doing a lot of technical training, community colleges everywhere are swollen with people upgrading thier skills. Perhaps when the jobs come back, they will be more technical instead of all the brain dead assembly line crap we've relied on for decades.
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The "technical" jobs in Michigan are non-existent. Compuware and EDS are laying people off left and right. I'm not sure what kind of skills you are going to acquire at a community college.
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funny, I was looking for a job in September, got 3 offers. Each of them offered more than the previous. And you can pick up skills at a community college if you take the right classes. I picked up a .Net class, was well worth it. I was formerly classic ASP, which is drying up.

 
Originally posted by: Train
Originally posted by: BarneyFife
Originally posted by: Train
Dasm, my states, (Ohio & Michigan) are way down at the bottom. Too many people relying on the big companies to provide manufacturing jobs. But the good news is both states are doing a lot of technical training, community colleges everywhere are swollen with people upgrading thier skills. Perhaps when the jobs come back, they will be more technical instead of all the brain dead assembly line crap we've relied on for decades.
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The "technical" jobs in Michigan are non-existent. Compuware and EDS are laying people off left and right. I'm not sure what kind of skills you are going to acquire at a community college.
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funny, I was looking for a job in September, got 3 offers. Each of them offered more than the previous. And you can pick up skills at a community college if you take the right classes. I picked up a .Net class, was well worth it. I was formerly classic ASP, which is drying up.
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yeah .net is really nice to work with. I dont want To leave cleveland and go to Columbus. This is something that "Republicans who always cite you can move to get a better job " never understand.


The Foundation of their "Family values" lies with the Family.

My Wifes and my family, Our Family are in cleveland.


 
Wow, I am surprise that Louisiana is not at the bottom or near bottom this time...LOL. We are at 5.3% which is a little better than the US average of 5.5%.
 
Arizona 4.8, pretty solid. Lots of growth... have one of the top 2 counties in population growth in America. Maricopa County has over 3 million people and is growing rapidly.
 
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