July 13, 2009
W.Va. jobless rate up for 10th straight month
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia's unemployment rate has increased for the 10th consecutive month.

Workforce West Virginia said Monday that the state's jobless rate in June was 9.4 percent, a 1.1 percentage point increase from the previous month.

The service-providing sector lost 3,700 jobs in June, mostly due to seasonal losses at colleges and universities.

Construction gained 400 jobs but that was offset by a loss of 500 jobs in mining and logging.

Overall, West Virginia has lost 22,700 non-farm jobs since June 2008.

The state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose by eight-tenths of a percentage point to 9.2 percent. The national rate increased by one-tenth of a percentage point to 9.5 percent.

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Posted By: WVU1981 (6:16am 07-16-2009)
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I thought when Czar Obama rammed the $1 trillion dollar "economic stimilus" bill through, unemployment was not to go above 9%. Czar Obama, what a liar you are!

Posted By: idpeaceb (1:49pm 07-14-2009)
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On that note, I'd like to send a shout-out to the governor's recent $55,000 raise. It really puts things in perspective.

Posted By: weatherwatcher (7:28am 07-14-2009)
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It could be worse. It could be republicans running things now. After all, in the 6 years they had absolute power, they raised the national debt far exceeding anything the dems had coupled with the deregulation of the banks and the massive tax cuts for the wealthiest they did and we are in the mess we are in now. So yes, it could be much worse if the republicans were still in power.

Posted By: pacaderm (6:04pm 07-13-2009)
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Get used to it. The worst of the Democrats are running things now.

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