Economy and jobs
Wisconsin Unemployment Rate Rises for Record 7th Straight Month
Last week’s news from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development that the state’s unemployment rate had increased from 8.5 percent in March to 8.6 percent in April marked an inauspicious moment for the Badger State’s labor market. Although the rise…
Read MoreIowa Unemployment Rate Falls for First Time in Nearly Three Years
New numbers released this week by Iowa Workforce Development find the Hawkeye State joining Minnesota, South Dakota, and North Dakota in seeing a slight drop in the unemployment rate for the month of April. Iowa’s jobless rate fell from 5.2…
Read MoreNorth Dakota Unemployment Rate Falls to Record 4.9 points Below National Average
For the second consecutive month, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate has fallen in the State of North Dakota – providing further evidence of at least a lull in, if not a cessation to, the bad economic news that has befallen…
Read MoreSouth Dakota Unemployment Rate Drops for First Time in 18 Months
In what may be the Upper Midwest’s first sign of the beginning of the end of its economic recession, the South Dakota Department of Labor announced on Wednesday that the Mount Rushmore State’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate had fallen to…
Read MoreMinnesota Unemployment Rate Drops for First Time Since May ’08
On the heels of the positive developments in South Dakota, which also saw its unemployment rate drop in April, the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development announced on Thursday morning that the Gopher State’s seasonally adjusted jobless rate fell…
Read MoreIowa Least Affected by Unemployment Increases in the Upper Midwest
Although the unemployment numbers released during the past week by Iowa Workforce Development find the Hawkeye State with its highest seasonally adjusted jobless rate since December 1987, Iowans are not losing their jobs at the rate endured by other Upper…
Read MoreWisconsin Unemployment Rate Eclipses Minnesota for First Time Since Summer 2007
For those wondering why Wisconsin’s evaluation of the job performance of President Barack Obama, its Governor, Jim Doyle, and its U.S. Senators, Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold, has been quite critical in recent months, one may only need to stop…
Read MoreSouth Dakota Unemployment Rate Reaches 23+ Year High
South Dakota’s Department of Labor announced the state’s new March 2009 unemployment numbers Wednesday morning – numbers which find the Mouth Rushmore State enduring its highest jobless rate in more than 23 years. The seasonally adjusted March 2009 unemployment rate…
Read MoreMinnesota Unemployment Rate Slows to Smallest Increase Since September
Although Minnesota’s new March unemployment numbers, released this morning by the state’s Department of Employment and Economic Development, are the highest since May 1983, the 8.2 percent seasonally adjusted rate marks the slowest rate of decline in jobs in the…
Read MoreMinneapolis Crime Rates Continue to Fall as Unemployment Rises
As unemployment rises month-by-month in Minneapolis, along with the rest of the Gopher State, serious violent and property crimes continue to fall in Minnesota’s most populated city at an impressive rate. Minneapolis’ non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate hit 7.1 percent in…
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