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SC Unemployment Rate Inches Back Up

STRING OF RECENT DECREASES SNAPPED With no government job growth to fuel its decline, South Carolina’s unemployment rate ticked back up in December 2012 – from 8.3 to 8.4 percent. Over the previous three months this widely watched economic indicator plummeted from 9.1 to 8.3 percent, although as we’ve noted…

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STRING OF RECENT DECREASES SNAPPED

With no government job growth to fuel its decline, South Carolina’s unemployment rate ticked back up in December 2012 – from 8.3 to 8.4 percent.

Over the previous three months this widely watched economic indicator plummeted from 9.1 to 8.3 percent, although as we’ve noted on several occasions this precipitous decline was driven by new taxpayer-funded positions – not private sector jobs.

South Carolina is also struggling to raise its historically low labor participation rate. And while December’s numbers showed the state’s labor force expanding by 8,500 workers – there are 10,000 fewer South Carolinians in the work force than there were a year ago (and 15,000 fewer than there were when S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley took office). Last summer, South Carolina’s labor participation rate hit an all-time low of 58.4 percent.

South Carolina’s underemployment rate – a broader, more accurate measure of joblessness – currently stands at 16.3 percent.

Nationally, the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 7.8 percent in January while the underemployment rate remained stuck at 14.4 percent.

DECEMBER 2012 UNEMPLOYMENT REPORT (.pdf)

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6 comments

? January 18, 2013 at 9:52 am

Great post on the “recovery” by zerohedge:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-17/does-look-recovery

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Guess I'm Not A Sex Addict? January 18, 2013 at 10:00 am

Speaking of “inches back up”, nice legs!

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Guess I'm Not A Sex Addict? January 18, 2013 at 10:00 am

Sorry, off topic…

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shifty henry January 18, 2013 at 10:42 am

….. the second and fourth (left to right) are hired – “When can you start?”

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tomstickler January 18, 2013 at 1:13 pm

Does the term “statistical noise” mean anything to anyone here?

OTH, you could look at the trend lines and see what that indicates over, maybe, the last ten years.

http://data.bls.gov/generated_files/graphics/latest_numbers_LASST45000003_2002_2012_all_period_M12_data_unemployment%2Brate.gif

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tomstickler January 18, 2013 at 1:14 pm

That is for the state of South Carolina, BTW.

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