Metro Atlanta’s jobless rate rises to 10.4 percent in August
Metro Atlanta’s unemployment rate rose to 10.4 percent in August from 10.3 percent in July, the state labor department said Thursday.
There has been no improvement from a year ago when the local jobless rate was also 10.4 percent.
The rate increased this August because there were more layoffs in construction, trade, administrative and support services, and accommodation and food services, the labor department said.
Clayton had the highest jobless rate among the core metro counties — 13 percent. Fulton was next with 11 percent, followed by DeKalb (10.8 percent), Cobb (9.6 percent) and Gwinnett (9.3 percent).
The city of Atlanta’s jobless rate hit 11.7 percent in August, up from a revised 11.5 percent in July.
Last week, the labor department reported that Georgia’s jobless rate rose to 10.2 percent in August from 10.1 percent in July.
August marked the 49th consecutive month Georgia has exceeded the national unemployment rate, which is currently 9.1 percent.
– Henry Unger, The Biz Beat
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Butch Cassidy
September 22nd, 2011
9:20 am
Buzz G – “Nobody in their right mind would start a new business with this leftist in the White House. The economy will not turn better until this bunch in Washington is gone.”
Of course Buzz, here’s my 8:32 post to remind you of that:
“Didn’t you hear? They’re locked away in a super secret vault that can only be opened with a magic ring. Once Obama is voted out, his succesor will be given the ring and come January 2012 unemployement is going virtually disappear, and all those jobs that have been going overseas for decades are going rush back so fast, it’s gonna make your head spin.”
New hope And Change Needed
September 22nd, 2011
9:20 am
Too many corrupt politicians in ATlanta…..Deal is one…Chambliss is another for the repubs. they need to be replaced with REAL conservatives and not this good ol boy network.
On the libtard side look at some of Atlanta areas lawmakers…..Kasim Reed, John Lewis, Hank Johnson, Vernon Jones, Cynthia McKinney…
That is a list of Atlanta legistlatiures and executives over the past few years. HELLO!
New hope And Change Needed
September 22nd, 2011
9:22 am
Butch – I dont think obama getting the boot will be a magic pill but it will help in small business confidence.When obama continues to play class warfare, the small businesses say no thanks…I am going to batten down the hatches for ahile.
Butch Cassidy
September 22nd, 2011
9:29 am
New Hope – “When obama continues to play class warfare, the small businesses say no thanks…”
Okay, this is actually a serious question. Exactly what regulations is it that you are referring to that constitute “class warfare”? And keep in mind that Obamacare only affects businesses that have 50 or more employees, and that the tax increases he refers to are on personal income, not corporate
income, and finally,I owned my own business for over 30 years before selling it. Okay, please continue.
The Reader
September 22nd, 2011
9:30 am
Corrupted government on any level. Country is broke, and going to be the brokest soon. If we invade for natural resources, etc., where is the money? Where is the $$ for the crude oil from Iraq? Clinton had basically no war on his agenda, and the gas was $1.00/gal. Bush, and now Obama have been in it for 10 years, and the gas is how much now? Who are you going to complain to? Of course the politicians do not care. Nothing works right here, in this country. Yeah, “the change” is coming…
Bill Campbell
September 22nd, 2011
9:35 am
Hey, New hope & you forgot about me. I did time for the tax evasion, etc., remember?
gm
September 22nd, 2011
9:50 am
Deal where are those jobs you promise you would bring to Georgia? Oh, I know its Obama fault, yet the stupid hicks continue to vote Rep year after year.
JP Moneybags III
September 22nd, 2011
9:51 am
People in my position, Job Creators, need more incentive to begin hiring. We need you to petition your politicians to lower our unconscionable tax rate from 29.7% down to 0%. Then my friends and I may consider adding a part time person. May the best MBA win that $7.25 an hour job
Homer
September 22nd, 2011
9:54 am
I thought that the tough anti-illegal immigrant legislation was going to open up thousands of jobs for unemployed job seekers that are anxious to go to work. What happened?
Butch Cassidy
September 22nd, 2011
9:58 am
Homer – “I thought that the tough anti-illegal immigrant legislation was going to open up thousands of jobs for unemployed job seekers that are anxious to go to work. What happened?”
It did, unfortunately they were the jobs that nobody wanted. Go figure.
Show Low Here We Come
September 22nd, 2011
9:59 am
FYI Galt @9:13 – in the last 12 months, ko has hired 1,900+ in georgia, and 10,000+ nationwide, so quit pickin’ on big red!!
jms
September 22nd, 2011
10:20 am
Cherokee,
Don’t go away angry, just go away.
Homer
September 22nd, 2011
10:21 am
The US economy is a consumer based economy. When people aren’t consuming, the economy is stagnant; therefore job creation is unlikely. The American consumers are the job creators in our economy. When the American consumers are comfortable with taking on more debt then they will start consuming again and jobs will rebound.
jms
September 22nd, 2011
10:25 am
JP,
Job creators don’t create jobs because they have spare cash lying around. They create jobs when they project the reward is worth the risk.
Red
September 22nd, 2011
10:38 am
I’d sit on my wealth too if I knew taxes were potentially going up. A business is threatened with higher taxes, loophole cuts, Obamacare, etc. Under these threats I as a business owner will either sit on my money or move my means of production overseas.
Liberals just do not get that. They complain with their anti-business rhetoric and then wonder where the jobs are. They threaten companies with higher taxes and regulations and wonder why no one is hiring. Well duh.
jms – to expand on what you said – they create jobs when their products and services are moving off the shelves. If people are not buying, shelves stay full, and businesses sit on that. Add to the fact that there are threats by the liberals against business, they wait even longer to create jobs or just look elsewhere for means of production. All one has to do is see all of these companies Obama sent tax dollars to – many took the money and ran….overseas.
Simply put – keep Obama in office and more businesses shut down, consolidate, or move overseas. Keep threatening and hating on anyone long enough they will move on. What happens when all of that cash and jobs moves on? No rich left to demagogue and tax….who is next? Middle class. Someone’s got to pay for it.
Elliot Garcia
September 22nd, 2011
10:38 am
Will all the Democrats please leave the state of Georgia? That way the unemployment rate could go down….
JP Moneybags III
September 22nd, 2011
10:49 am
JMS, I am a Job Creator. I own a successful small business with 157 employees. Last year at this time I only employed 225 employees. My 157 employees are very happy to have their jobs and when I told them I can make more money if they took a 12% pay cut they all said yes. I see no reason to add employees when my core will do whatever I say to keep their jobs.
spchiv
September 22nd, 2011
11:04 am
Check out Georgia’s national education rankings. That’s part of the answer and it doesn’t look like it’s going to get much better anytime soon. Good luck!
runaway bride
September 22nd, 2011
11:06 am
Butch Cassidy,will you marry me?
Ichungrypeople
September 22nd, 2011
11:09 am
Instead of “We shall overcome”, it seems to be “We shall come over for food”.
Middle Class American Latino
September 22nd, 2011
11:11 am
I think we should cut taxes for the top 1% so they can continue to create millions of jobs, just like they have been..sarcasm!
I’m noticing dems are willing to compromise and make cuts to programs dear to them, but the hardline these GOP clowns have taken will only make things worse.
I feel like the dems have moved from the left closer to the center but the right has gotten on the short bus to a crazy somewhat fanatical place. No budging with these.
I like many Republican policies! As well as Democratic policies. We should look to compromise, but I am completely turned off by the attitude, and hatred they show to our current PRESIDENT. Show some F****cking respect!
I got news for you guys, in the next four years things are not going to get much better. This is a global financial problem. Unfortunetly Obama’s 8 years will completely be a financial struggle, not because of him though.
I hate to blame Bush, but he did take a fat chicken leg and left Obama bare bones! All of sudde with Obama in office the GOP wants to take charge but didnt do anything while Bush was in office creating this unregulated mess.
Founders Club for Thoroughbred Racing
September 22nd, 2011
11:13 am
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yuzeyurbrane
September 22nd, 2011
11:17 am
Let’s be real. The state govt. can’t control the money supply, can’t enter into trade agreements and only has a marginal ability to create stimulus to enhance demand. Its prime functions are public health and education. It has made strides in education but has seemingly abandoned efforts to invest in this 1 area where it could make a difference. The condition of public health will strike home when Grady goes belly-up as well as many rural hospitals. The defn. of insanity is when you do something that doesn’t work and keep repeating it anyway. Ga. has long had 1 of the lowest corp tax rates and treats its wealthy as if they were on Mt. Olympus. It has done nothing except make the wealthy a little wealthier and the middle class a little poorer. Yet we repeat the same old formulas. The HOPE Scholarship is a good example. The program primarily benefits the middle class. The so-called “reform to save HOPE” added about $2,000 a year in costs to the middle class families effected. Now, the rulers say things like “it is still a good deal” and “students should pay for their education”. This comes out of the mouths of folks who know nothing about the struggle that middle class families living paycheck to paycheck make to even send their kids to public universities, especially during economic times like now. The truth is that if we had the money we would probably send our kids to Emory like our wealthy low taxed friends. And believe me, there are few middle class people who care 1 iota whether the $2,000 a year more they are paying is called an entitlement reduction or a tax increase. Only the latter seems to get attention here in Ga. It is not fair and it has not created jobs.
JD
September 22nd, 2011
11:17 am
BUTCH, try help wanted adds instead of here. I don’t spoon feed fools. Keep voting for Obama, another term ought to finish this county off.
Homer
September 22nd, 2011
11:21 am
We had a republican president and a republican majority in the house and senate for 6 years during the Bush years. In October, 2008 the US had the slowest US job growth since the depression during those 8 years, and that was during a housing boom. So, who is the anti-business party? The republican base are so bushwhacked by Hannity and Limbaugh, the mouthpieces of the Wall Street welfare dependents, that they really believe their BS.
Kayne West
September 22nd, 2011
11:22 am
George Bush and “JD” doesn’t care about real people.
Homer2.0
September 22nd, 2011
11:26 am
0 job growth in August, worst since 1943. Low job growth beats this job loss under your hero president. You people can’t be this ignorant can you then again you do vote for liberal job destroyers.
Middle Class American Latino
September 22nd, 2011
11:32 am
I guess believers will believe anything anyone tells them.
Obama has tried to promote policies the GOP has agreed to in the past, but now all of sudden he is the devil.
Leads me to believe that there is more to your bickering. Its not that you dont like the food being served, you just don’t like the waiter. Some of you are so backwards that we can giev all the money to the rich and you would still call the dems socialists.
Snoop Dogg
September 22nd, 2011
11:34 am
Vote for me in 2012! I will legalize weed,by doing so,we will have a trillion dollar surplus by 2014. Fo’shizzle!
Well
September 22nd, 2011
11:37 am
Nathan Deal said he would bring jobs to Georgia…where are the jobs Man?????? Exactly…they disappeared into thin air. That’s what happens when you have Republicans in office!
Butch Cassidy
September 22nd, 2011
11:38 am
JD – “BUTCH, try help wanted adds instead of here. I don’t spoon feed fools. Keep voting for Obama, another term ought to finish this county off.”
Okay, 1. Try help wnated ads makes no sense in response to my request for proof. Unless you plan to present some samples indicating that job applicants are now required to identify political affiliation. And 2. Nowhere in ANY of my posts did I say I voted for Obama. If you must know, I haven’t voted in an election since I helped vote in GW Bush in his first term. After that, there really wasn’t much point.
So JD, why don’t you try to validate some of your specious and compeletely untrue talking points rather than making great big assumptions about people you don’t even know.
Pamela
September 22nd, 2011
11:40 am
To Middle Class American Latino:
I agree with you 1000%! The ONLY problem white AmeriKKKa has with President Obama is that he is 1/2 Black! That’s the ONLY problem they have with him. He has done a very good job being President. He is in the midst of trying to undo what Bush did for 8 very, very, very looooooong years in office! I will vote for Barack Obama in 2012! He will win again!
Butch Cassidy
September 22nd, 2011
11:42 am
runaway bride – “Butch Cassidy,will you marry me?”
sorry RB, I’m taken. But don’t worry, I’m sure a fine, upstanding lad like JD would be interested. Aside from being completely full of SH#@ and a total liar, I think he’s aces!!
Homer
September 22nd, 2011
11:44 am
Nathan Deal’s plan was to purge Georgia of eeeeleeeeguls so that the semi-literate Georgians wouldn’t have to compete for jobs.
Thank God I'm Gone!
September 22nd, 2011
11:59 am
I moved a few weeks ago to a state with the 2nd lowest unemployment rate in the USA. Help wanted signs are everywhere! After 24 years in metro Atlanta living here is a wonderful change! BTW figure out where I went
Butch Cassidy
September 22nd, 2011
12:05 pm
Thank God I’m Gone – ” After 24 years in metro Atlanta living here is a wonderful change! BTW figure out where I went
It’s definitely going to be in the Midwest. North Dakota has the lowest UE , so I’m going to guess Nebraska. Am I right?
Thank God I'm Gone!
September 22nd, 2011
12:06 pm
@Butch Cassidy close but not right
X unemployed
September 22nd, 2011
12:08 pm
Please read this in its entirety :
Life is GOOD. I Sold my Technology company which employed 22 high paying Technology jobs in 1999 for several million dollars….. when things were great~!
I am now traveling the world, sitting at my paid for home relaxing and enjoying the days and not worrying about anything except staying healthy – as a 52 year old male.
My suggestion to all you unemployed…start a business like I did when I was LAID off and UNEMPLOYED in the 80’s….and work your a**es off like I did and U too may be able to relax during hard time. Stop listening to the nay sayers and……put plugs in your ears……..I do NOT have a college degree, had NO money to start, and was coming off of a terrible divorce with horrible credit – but I did it!
I hope this encourages you…….Just do it!
Hootinanny Yum Yum
September 22nd, 2011
12:23 pm
Funny all the libs pointing fingers at the state GOP leadership.
There is nothing anyone in this state, democrat or republican, could do to overcome the anti-business, pro-union bias, real or perceived, associated with this president and his cabinet.
Most business owners, small and large, want this administration to end. You want recovery, put a different person in the White House. Won’t matter if they’re democrat or republican.
redmema
September 22nd, 2011
12:26 pm
I totally agree with Pamela, Let’s be honest the only reason republicans have a problem with Obama is because he is considered black no matter what percentage of white is in his blood. They will cut off their nose to spite their face just to see him fail. I believe he was set up for failure in the beginning. Personally I don’t know why he is trying to run a second term because this country is not ready for a black leader. Yes he was voted in because most people realized that they had been bamboozzled. But once he got in, republicans were more determined to get him out because all their skeletons in the closet were falling out like bowling pins. I could go on and on but until Americans wake up and smell the roses we will never be equal.
Butch Cassidy
September 22nd, 2011
12:27 pm
Hootinanny – “There is nothing anyone in this state, democrat or republican, could do to overcome the anti-business, pro-union bias, real or perceived, associated with this president and his cabinet.”
Yeah, just look at the Koch Brothers. They only made 20 billion dollars in the last 3 years under Obama. Just think what they could have made without all that anti business, pro union bias standing in their way!
JD
September 22nd, 2011
1:12 pm
BUTCH, your spelling is my proof.
artjazz54
September 22nd, 2011
1:15 pm
Hey guys, I’m enjoying my 100o/o VA compensation, and SSDI, along with OPM Disability retirement; o taxes of course. Vote some more Repugnant’s in office, and they will make your life sweet as hell; and yes, for those who think TX is gold, try telling that to the cotton farmers, ranchers, and produce industry people who have been battered by the drought. Good Luck with your 401K guys, I got out of the game years ago, and so did my brother!
Butch Cassidy
September 22nd, 2011
1:23 pm
JD, actually it’s not. You said “Obama crosses state line. Those that vote democrat are the majority of those unemployed.”
I asked you to back up you’re statement with actual proof, which obviously you can’t.
Your insinuation that I must fall into the aforementioned statement is also incorrect on 3 counts:
1. I’m not unemployed, I’m retired. I sold my business 5 years ago, and not once did my spelling ability come up in the final negotiations.
2. I’m not a Democrat.
3. I don’t live in Georgia.
You’re deflections are further proof that you can’t back up anything that you’ve said. if you want to try some actual facts, I’ll be happy to debate you. If not, I suggest you get back to mowing my yard.
Homer
September 22nd, 2011
1:23 pm
JD @ 11:17 – “BUTCH, try help wanted adds instead of here.” Who the hell are you, Daniel Webster?
Kt
September 22nd, 2011
3:29 pm
Thank goodness we have such a wonderful republican leadership to help the common people out of this mess!
Oh,.. wait….
Road Scholar
September 22nd, 2011
4:38 pm
Henry, there for a while, since you hadn’t written anything for a while, I thought that you may have joined the ranks of the unemployed…..or gotten an appointment from Gov Deal!?
FROM ATLANTA TO SEATTLE.2015
September 22nd, 2011
5:59 pm
GEORGIA,S BIG PROBLEM???backward,ignorant,racist to the core,hateful REPUBLICANS!!! THEY HAVE MADE THE STATE 3RD IN POVERTY BY THIER GREED..AND HAS CRIPPLED ATLANTA FROM A PROGRESSIVE CITY TO A STAGNANT ONE while other cities surpass it!!(CHARLOTTE,GREENVILLE,DALLAS,NASHVILLE,SEATTLE)THEY WONT REST UNTIL GEORGIA AND ATLANTA HAS TURNED THE CLOCK BACK 40 YEARS!!NO LIQUOR SALES ON SUNDAY IN THE 9TH LARGEST METRO AREA IN THE COUNTRY IS A JOKE!!ROY BARNES WAS THE BEST MAN FOR THE JOB INSTEAD THE REDNECKS IN GEORGIA HAVE TO HAVE SOMEONE WITH A “R”ONLY TO THEIR DETRIMENT..DONT EXPECT THINGS TO GET BETTER FOLKS TILL YOU GET REPUBLICANS OUT OF OFFICE..EXPECT ATLANTA TO BE DETROIT AND GEORGIA TO BE MISSISSIPPI!!!
Elliot Garcia
September 22nd, 2011
5:59 pm
redema…I could care less what color Obama is….he just can’t lead his way out of a paper bag….my wife is black and beautiful…..
recession
September 23rd, 2011
7:45 am
all these economic problems are the fault of the tea party and bush! it will take obama years to clean up all these problems.