{"id":9991,"date":"2013-07-24T14:35:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T18:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=9991"},"modified":"2013-07-24T16:12:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T20:12:33","slug":"new-north-country-unemployment-figures-better-but-still-not-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/07\/24\/new-north-country-unemployment-figures-better-but-still-not-great\/","title":{"rendered":"New North Country unemployment figures better, but still not great"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Preliminary June unemployment numbers are out from the New York State Department of Labor (here’s the press release with highlights and a link to the full numbers<\/a>). In a nutshell, non-seasonally-adjusted numbers are, for our counties (if I missed any, all the information is in the above-linked document):<\/p>\n

Lewis: 9.0 percent, down from 9.5 last year<\/p>\n

St. Lawrence: 9.6, down from 10.8<\/p>\n

Warren: 6.3, down from 7.5<\/p>\n

Washington: 6.4, down from 7.3<\/p>\n

Clinton: 8.6, down from 10.0<\/p>\n

Essex: 7.9, down from 9.1<\/p>\n

Franklin: 8.6, down from 9.5<\/p>\n

Jefferson: 8.8, down from 9.4<\/p>\n

Hamilton: 6.0, down from 6.7<\/p>\n

Whew! So it looks like unemployment went down pretty much everywhere in our region in the last year. Of course, there are some caveats to keep in mind about unemployment numbers, the main one being that unemployment figures don’t count everyone who’s unemployed. Here’s who the numbers do <\/em>count, from the state DOL’s unemployment fact sheet<\/a> (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n

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The estimate of the number of unemployed includes all persons who had no employment during the reference week (the week including the 12th of the month), were available for work, except for temporary illness, and had made specific efforts to find employment sometime during the 4-week period ending with the reference week.<\/strong> Unemployment insurance (UI) beneficiaries include those who apply for and qualify for UI benefits. Consequently, the estimate of the number of unemployed and the number of UI beneficiaries do not necessarily move in tandem.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The numbers have <\/em>improved, though (again, there’s the question of how many people have simply given up looking for work, but we’ll leave that aside for the moment). But for the state, they’re still high — New York’s average unemployment rate is 7.5 percent, which means that of the counties listed above, six have higher-than-average unemployment. And St. Lawrence County has the second-highest unemployment rate in the state (9.6 percent), after Bronx County in New York City (11.8 percent).<\/div>\n
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