The Illinois jobless rate fell from 9.4 percent to 9.1 percent in February, marking the sixth straight month that the state's unemployment rate has declined. Employers added 6,500 jobs in February, according to statistics compiled by the Illinois Department of Employment Security.
Illinois unemployment peaked in January 2010 at 11.4 percent. Unemployment numbers do not include those working part-time but would like full-time work or people who have stopped actively looking for a job.
The national unemployment rate is 8.3 percent.
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9.1% isn't a substantial number. Unemployment is still high.
A lot of this is just pandering to the news and media hoping to get Obama re-elected. Unemployment is still to high to hope for that.
Bob Kastigar
IBEW Local 1220, Chicago
As we get closer to the November elections more & more unemployed will begin exhausting their benefits and no longer be counted which will continue to artificially drive down the unemployment rate.
Funny how the unemployment rate slowly keeps dropping as the number of food stamp recipients slowly keeps rising or remains steady.
BTW… This week is the “99er’s birthday. They will be two years old.
There are still roughly 8 million 99er’s (without benefits or jobs today), half of which gave up looking for work entirely. If the government would quit hiding these people, there just may be more emphasis on real full-time jobs/careers instead of part-time minimum wage jobs and government assistance programs.
Has anyone else noticed all the new TV & radio commercials advertising for free cell phones and free monthly minutes for anyone collecting government assistance?
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