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WASHINGTON — Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) is pressing federal officials to accelerate federal water projects in Mississippi as one way to create greater economic activity in a state with a 12 percent unemployment rate.
Cochran, vice chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, addressed the new Mississippi unemployment rate during a March 12 hearing to review the [...] [...]
In the week ending March 6, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial unemployment claims in the U.S. was 462,000, a decrease of 6,000 from the previous week’s revised figure. The four-week moving average was 475,500, an increase of 5,000 from the previous week’s revised average.
The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 3.5 percent [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 11,2010
Tags: ARRA, Barbour, employment, jobs, Legislature, MDES, recession, state agency, state government, stimulus, unemployment, unemployment benefite
JACKSON — The Mississippi Department of Employment Security (MDES) was in jeopardy after a bill reauthorizing the agency died under a deadline yesterday amid a fight to force Gov. Haley Barbour to accept $56 million in stimulus funding.
House Labor Committee Chairman Rufus Straughter, D-Belzoni, didn’t bring the bill out for a vote in time to [...] [...]
There were 2.7 million job openings on the last business day of Jan. 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported yesterday. The job openings rate rose over the month to 2.1 percent, the highest the rate has been since Feb. 2009.
The hires rate (3.1 percent) and the separations rate (3.2 percent) were unchanged in [...] [...]
The nation’s nonresidential building construction sector lost 9,600 jobs in February, according to the March 5 employment report by the U.S. Labor Department. Since Feb. 2009, the sector has shed 101,700 jobs, or 13.3 percent.
Employment in nonresidential construction now stands at 661,600.
Hit the hardest was the nonresidential specialty trade sector, which lost 34,900 jobs last [...] [...]
Nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (-36,000) in February, and the unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.
Employment fell in construction and information, while temporary help services added jobs. Severe winter weather in parts of the country may have affected payroll employment and hours; however, it is not possible [...] [...]
In the week ending Feb. 27, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial unemployment claims in the U.S. was 469,000, a decrease of 29,000 from the previous week’s revised figure. The four-week moving average was 470,750, a decrease of 3,500 from the previous week’s revised average.
The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 3.5 percent [...] [...]
Annual average unemployment rates rose in 2009 in all regions, divisions and states, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.
The U.S. jobless rate jumped by 3.5 percentage points from the prior year to 9.3 percent, while the national employment-population ratio fell by 2.9 points to 59.3 percent.
Here in Mississippi, the unemployment rate was 9.6 [...] [...]
JACKSON — With the recession’s effect still lingering in Mississippi, legislators are taking a hard look at job creation proposals as the 2010 session heads into its final month.
Several bills designed to stimulate economic development are pending at the state Capitol. House Ways and Means Chairman Percy Watson and Senate [...] [...]
In the week ending Feb. 20, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial unemployment claims in the U.S. was 496,000, an increase of 22,000 from the previous week’s revised figure. The four-week moving average was 473,750, an increase of 6,000 from the previous week’s revised average.
The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 3.5 percent [...] [...]
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