Word came today that Alabama now has joined the list of the ten states with the highest unemployment rate in the U.S.
Alabama's is 10.7%
Michigan had the highest at 15.3%, with the Detroit car industry in tatters.
Alabama has one Black Belt County---Wilcox County-- with an unemployment rate of almost 25%, equaling the highest unemployment rate during The Great Depression! It appears Wilcox had the third or fourth highest unemployment rate in America, according to an interactive map from earlier in the year in the NY Times. Percentages can be deceiving, of course. A remote rural county in Texas with a tiny population might have a 50% jobless rate, but it might represent only 100 people. Still, the rate in Alabama has doubled in the past year.
Meanwhile, our Gov gives out 16 million unbid contracts to an outfit in Virginia with no listed phone number and no website.
ReplyDeleteAnd he hired the former state Republican party chairperson to attend meetings for him. $85,000.
And none of that has anything to do with unemployment, Jay, but we've always known where you stood politically.
ReplyDeleteThe same could be said of the following:
Meanwhile, the Legislature awards a $50,000 per year no-bid contract to a former legislator convicted of stealing state funds...
Meanwhile, the Legislature's head clerk is the highest paid state employee in the country...
Meanwhile, someone is dealing drugs in the State House...
Meanwhile, the Democratic majority leader in the state senate pleads guilty to DUI and hit-and-run...
All irrelevant to unemployment.