Facing possibly layoff wondering how much unemployment will run??? located in Ohio?

I am looking at a possible lay off and was wondering on what is unemployment rate??? I was told I possibly there is possibly two months before layoffs... I don%26#039;t plan on staying on it for to long but I may need to for at least 3 months... I am married with 3 children and my wife does not work... Please if anyone knows what the going rate is in Ohio it would ease my mind some so I know I won%26#039;t be leaving my family out in the cold... Thanks to all who answer in advance

Facing possibly layoff wondering how much unemployment will run??? located in Ohio?fast loan

Sorry that I can%26#039;t tell you what you ask but my heart goes out to you, its a scary place to be. My empathy for you is enormous. My belief in God comforts me greatly as he has always provided in surprising ways each time I found myself in similar circumstances. There is some great force in this universe for the good of life whatever a person calls it.

May the positive life-force be with you as you reposition your gainful employment.

During which part of the business cycle will unemployment be highest and during which part will it b

One of the goals of macroeconomic policy is to reduce the severity of business cycles.

During which part of the business cycle will unemployment be highest and during which part will it be lowest?

If the severity of business cycles were reduced, what would be the effect on each of the four types of unemployment and on the unemployment rate as a whole?

Please help me. I am soooo stuck.

During which part of the business cycle will unemployment be highest and during which part will it be lowest..va loan

In a business cycle there are highs and lows. As you would expect, on a high business is booming and the economy is growing. As you might also expect there is high demand for labour so unemployment is low. (Inflation will be high).

Frictional employment may be high, but anyone who is unemployed will be so for only a short period. People are willing to leave one job as they can reasonably expect to be able to pick up another easily. You will have a very large labour turnover.

Cyclical employment will be low as the cycle is at a high point.

Seasonal unemployment will be appropriate to the season. However, as employment opportunities exist with better conditions in the non seasonal sector, ther will be shortages in the seasonal sector..

The opposite applies to the bottom of the cycles.

Sorry, I forgot %26quot;structural unemployment%26quot;. This needs a long %26#039;boom%26#039; to be affected. The economy needs the time to change the structure of the work force. Re training and re educating takes time as does skill acquisition.

During which part of the business cycle will unemployment be highest and during which part will it be lowest..

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Highest unemployment while a republican is in the whitehouse.

Lowest unemployment while a democrat is in the whitehouse.

Why do Cons continue to promote the lie that unemployment under Bush is the lowest in 20 or 30 years

http://www.nidataplus.com/lfeus1.htm

Clinton inherited a high unemployment rate from the first Bush; unemployment then decreased EVERY year (that%26#039;s eight STRAIGHT years) while Clinton was Prez., only to shoot up under Bush II until, mercifully it began to drop after 3 plus years of zero job growth. Yet we continually the Cons %26amp; Repubs %26quot;bragging%26quot; that we have the lowest unemployment in many years.

Why do Cons continue to promote the lie that unemployment under Bush is the lowest in 20 or 30 years?fha loan

Because they are employed.

Next time, when the Democrats are in power and all these Republicans will be looking in vain for patronage jobs, that%26#039;s when they will understand about employment.

Why do Cons continue to promote the lie that unemployment under Bush is the lowest in 20 or 30 years?

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The rate is lowest it has been in years.

And the high rate was nothing like the one Reagan inheritted from Carter.

As much as you dont like it the rate does not lie.

The lowest in decades|||The decline is joblessness has been greatly exaggerated by the federal government.

And anyway, it doesn%26#039;t mean the economy in most areas nationwide is the best it%26#039;s ever been. Because it isn%26#039;t.|||They support George Bush. What is it that you expect from these people?|||it is true, for them anywat.|||More importantly there was no war, injecting trillions of borrowed money into the economy.|||ya, we are running on %26quot;funny money%26quot;

the treasury department should be brought up on charges of counterfeiting, theres no collateral to back the money that%26#039;s being printed!!!

and those unemployment results are %26quot;cooked books%26quot; big time!!!

all the good jobs are being outsourced!!!

those of you that say things are great are not in the real world!!

of course that%26#039;s just my opinion!!!|||And Don%26#039;t Forget...Out Of 30+ Million Illegal Central And S. American Invaders, 5-10 Million Are Unemployed.|||That%26#039;s a bunch of bull. I can recall time after time, big companies having to lay off thousands of people during the Clinton years.|||because it is and every report by the government supports that,|||Yes, you must not read the business news, or keep up with business.

We have had the best economy in history.

We have had what is considered full employment.

If Democrats would ever break down and apply for a job, they would find out that we have a Great Economy.

But, no way.|||Why do you liberals always look for the bad stuff, refuse to see the good and ignore the facts. No wonder liberalism is a mental dis order.|||PRESIDENT BUSH DONE A LOT OF GOOD FOR AMERICA.......%26quot;DON%26#039;T EVEN COMPARE BILL CLINTON TO MY PRESIDENT%26quot;! BILL CLINTON LIED ALL THROUGH HIS PRESIDENCY............BILL CLINTON GOT BY WITH MURDER AND I MEAN THAT LITERALLY.......PEOPLE THAT KNEW CLINTON WELL ENDED UP DEAD BECAUSE THE KNEW TO MUCH.......ATTACKS IN THE U.S.A., SOLD SECRETS TO CHINA....BILL CLINTON AND HILLARY CLINTON ARE COMMUNIST AND WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA.....

What does each .1 of a percent represent in numbers of people in unemployment numbers?

Unemployment shot up to 5.1 percent from 4.8 in February, continuing the string of bad economic news that suggests the economy has entered a recession after years of poor jobs growth under President Bush. The mismanaged, weak economy is continuing to take a toll on working families.

Dismal Employment Numbers: 80,000 Jobs Lost

By David Madland

April 4, 2008

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For the first time in five years, the U.S. economy lost jobs for three consecutive months, according to figures released today by the Department of Labor. Unemployment shot up to 5.1 percent from 4.8 in February, continuing the string of bad economic news that suggests the economy has entered a recession after years of poor jobs growth under President Bush. The mismanaged, weak economy is continuing to take a toll on working families.

In March, employment was down by 80,000 jobs, and since the start of the year the economy has lost 232,000 jobs. The last time the economy saw three straight months of employment decline was April 2003. Today鈥檚 release also indicates that job losses in January and February were worse than initially reported: Employment in those months was revised downward by 67,000 jobs.

The number of unemployed persons rose to 7,815,000 in March. The last time the number of unemployed was so high was in December 2004, and the number of unemployed has not increased as much over the course of a year since August 2002. While the unemployment rate increase of 0.3 percentage points is a significant jump from February, it should more accurately be viewed as a continuation of a year-long trend of rising unemployment.

These most recent job losses come on top of a period of very weak job growth, making today鈥檚 news that much more troubling. Over the past year, the economy has created only 536,000 jobs鈥攆ar less than the pace needed just to keep up with population growth. In contrast, the economy created about 2 million jobs in 2006, which was a relatively weak year of economic recovery. In the late 1990s, the economy was creating 3 million jobs per year.

Job losses were widespread. The collapsing housing market continued its downward pull on the economy, but significant losses were felt in many other sectors, especially manufacturing and professional services. Job losses were led by the struggling construction sector, where 51,000 jobs were lost in March. Since March of last year, construction has lost 356,000 jobs.

Manufacturing continued its long slide, losing 48,000 jobs for the month. Manufacturing has lost jobs nearly every month for the past several years. For the past year, losses in the sector total 310,000 jobs.

Professional services, a sector that had been growing in recent months, declined by 35,000 jobs in March. Over the past year, the sector has still produced 161,000 jobs. Temporary help services fell by over 21,000 for the month, indicating that hiring is likely to be weak for some time. Increases in temporary employment can indicate a growing need for workers.

As has been the case for some time, jobs increased in health care, restaurants, and government, but gains in these sectors were not enough to prevent the overall employment figures from appearing grim. Healthcare added nearly 23,000 jobs in March, and has generated just over 360,000 new jobs over the past year. Restaurant employment increased by 23,000 for the month, and has added nearly 290,000 jobs for the year. Government added 18,000 jobs, and has added 244,000 since March 2007.

The Department of Labor report also indicates that the economic downturn is hitting the Latino community particularly hard. The employment-to-population ratio鈥攁 good measure of the overall strength of the labor market鈥攆ell the sharpest for Hispanics in March, declining to 63.7 percent from 64.3 percent. In contrast the employment-to-population ration for whites held steady at 63.3 percent. The ratio for African Americans also fell, but by a lesser amount, to 58.2 percent from 58.4 percent.

The job market has been particularly hard on those with less skills鈥攚orkers with a high school degree or less鈥攁 category that includes many immigrants. The employment-to-population ratio fell for the month to 42.3 percent from 43.0 percent for people with less than a high school diploma, and to 59.1 percent from 59.7 for those with a high school degree.

In contrast, the employment-to-population ratio for those with more education held steady or increased: For those with some college it remained about the same, going to 69.3 percent to 69.4 percent, and for those with a bachelor鈥檚 degree or more it increased to 77.0 percent from 76.5.

All told, today鈥檚 jobs figures paint a bleak picture of a weak economy. There is no way to put a positive face on today鈥檚 job figures. The labor market has been in the doldrums for years, with well below average job growth, flat wages, and declining benefits. This has forced families deeper and deeper into record amounts of debt. And just as families are beginning to ponder how they are ever going to repay this debt, the rug is pulled out from under them as jobs become scarcer. The weak labor market is inflicting the greatest harm on those who are the most vulnerable.

Policymakers who have ignored the trouble signs brewing in the labor market for years need to craft an economic recovery plan that addresses the current nosedive in the labor market, but also the long-term weakness that preceded it. The recently enacted economic stimulus plan will help kick-start the economy when checks go out to taxpayers this summer, but it needs to be followed by a reorientation of our longer-term economic policies to make the economy work for real people with real economic problems鈥攏ot just financial markets dealing with mostly self-inflicted pain.

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What does each .1 of a percent represent in numbers of people in unemployment numbers?secured loan

The labor force is approximately 153.6 million people. So and increase in unemployment of 0.1% means 153,600 lost their jobs and are trying to find new ones.

Y dont ppl realize that unemployment is down cuz reservists and nation guard are shown as employed s

They are counted as still being employed while someone else is doing their thousands and thousands of jobs. So what do you think will happen to unemployment rate when they return back to their jobs

Y dont ppl realize that unemployment is down cuz reservists and nation guard are shown as employed still,but..cheap loans

In a sense, I understand what you are saying...

With so many military members being sent overseas, Justin h is suggesting that the voids of their absenses from jobs are being filled temporarily by the unemployed and that when they return, unemployment will go up.

I disagree.

Military members that are called to active duty that have jobs in the private sector are guarenteed their jobs upon their return unless they are not able...because they are guarenteed employment, most employers wont hire temporary work because it costs too much and takes too much time to train someone who is just filling in.

Also, keep in mind that there are over 8 million letters going to businesses about employees who%26#039;s name does not match their given social security number. If the businesses act as they ethicly should, even more jobs should become available due to fraudulent employment.

With the conflict being such as it is, I would expect that one of two things are about to happen:

1) the build-up of troops is going to be a measure of reinforcements so we will not see your theory any time soon.

or

2) the build-up of troops is going to be a measure of reinforcements so we can safely extract the troops- in which case your theory will be tested sooner than you expected.

Personally, I%26#039;d bet on #1 until the Iraqi government appears (not %26quot;is%26quot;) able to sustain itself.

Answerman has a point- the unemployment rate only triggers on those eligible to collect it, but the job market is also opening up (just not the upper wage positions).

Y dont ppl realize that unemployment is down cuz reservists and nation guard are shown as employed still,but..

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huh?|||That doesn%26#039;t even make sense. How many reservists and guardsmen do you think have been mobilized? They would account for a VERY small fraction of a difference in the total employment - certainly not nearly 1/10 of a percent.|||Nothing. They%26#039;ll just actually be there instead of just being counted like they are.|||If every single Guard and Reserve were considered employed and were deployed it would still be a tiny percentage of the population and could not effect employment numbers.|||I have no doubt that I should doubt any numbers that the gov presents on the economy. The current debt is claimed to be ~8.5t. As insane as that is, I%26#039;m sure it%26#039;s worse due to off-budget spending.|||uh, jonas j is right, do the calculations|||people don%26#039;t realize because they don%26#039;t WANT to know, they don%26#039;t want to take a real look at our society, our poverty levels and our unemployment levels, for a very simple reason... FEAR... there%26#039;s very fine line between the rich and the poor and no one wants to think the %26#039;what if it happened to me%26#039; thoughts.|||wow you bumped your head!|||Hey moonbat, stay away from moveon.org. You%26#039;re sounding just as loonie as they do.|||OK, like you want Soldiers to come home unemployed now or something?

Could you Bi-Polar Socialist-Liberals just go to your %26quot;Happy Place%26quot; or something?|||WTF??|||You have to also remember that unemployed are counted different now. They are now counting only those that are on unemployment insurance and not everybody that has run out, the economy is really in an awful mess, there is many, many more unemployed then what is being counted. More personal bankruptcy%26#039;s. More homes being repossessed, the real estate market has dried up and it is very difficult to sell a house. The stock market is inflated but that is not a good indicator of the state of the economy.|||The military is only a fraction of the population jack-off! Why wouldn%26#039;t they be counted as employed? They ARE employed!|||Maybe while he was off fighting, illegal immigrants moved in and took his job, maybe yours will be the next.

Why does Michigan have the nation's highest unemployment, by far?

Highest unemployment by state for August, 2007:

Michigan, 7.2%

Alaska, 6.3%

Mississippi, 5.9%

Ohio, 5.7%

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

http://www.bls.gov/web/lauhsthl.htm

Michigan%26#039;s unemployment rate for August is 7.2%, which is 22% higher than Mississippi, and 14% higher than number 2 Alaska.

Why does Michigan have the nation%26#039;s highest unemployment, by far?consolidation loans

Unions have a stranglehold on jobs. They are forcing manufacturers out of business. Just look at the auto industry. At one time GM had 800,000 employees. They are down to 73,000 in the US.

Why does Michigan have the nation%26#039;s highest unemployment, by far? loan

Hmm. Must be a blue state problem|||This would be because of the problems in the auto sector. Same goes for Ohio, a lot of steel and Tier 2 and Tier 3 automotive there.

Some people think they%26#039;re Mohammad, they expect a mountain of jobs to come to them, I guess.|||it%26#039;s been that way since 9/11, when GM and other automobile companies were hard hit by the subsequent stock market fluctuation.

Grandholm was elected in 2003, two years later.|||%26quot;I can%26#039;t recall.%26quot;

Coultergeists are out to play today.|||they were too dependent on the auto industry|||The industries that built their employment base have moved all of their operations overseas.....in a word, %26quot;globalization%26quot; has created their unenployment situation.|||The reason is really quite simple. THE PRESS!! I think we would find the unemployment rate in Michigan would drop drastically if the Press would stop printing all those articles about the fact there isn%26#039;t any work in Michigan. They should write about all the job possibilities and the potential to find employment. This would stop all the immigrants from going to Michigan knowing there is no work and being eligable for welfare and social assistance.|||Auto industry going to hell. A person making 7.00 an hour can%26#039;t afford a car built by people making 30.00 an hour. Starting to catch up with them.|||Idk, but I think the unions have something to do with this.

I Cr 13;8a|||Well, I worked in tech/manufacturing in detroit, and thats been sliding for years. So has the auto industry, and the trades. Too many slumping businesses combined with a ressesive economy and higher manufacturing and distribution costs have taken the profits away in a lot of areas. We have a lot of unused potential here, and I would love to be a part of that machine again, but at the moment, all these things are barely alive.|||It%26#039;s the dependency on the auto industry. I know Northern Michigan is mostly tourist based and that hasn%26#039;t been going well either because no one can afford to come as much anymore and the budget up here is pretty ridiculous. It%26#039;s only going to get worse now that our good for nothing Governor raised taxes so we can pay more for things that we can%26#039;t afford to pay in the first place. I grew up here so I%26#039;ll always love it, but these days I%26#039;m ready to move on if it doesn%26#039;t get better.

Poverty rate drops - How did Bush make this happen?

Was it the tax cuts for working people that caused this decline?

%26quot;WASHINGTON 鈥?The nation%26#039;s poverty rate declined for the first time this decade.%26quot;

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/z...

It might be our very very low unemployment rate (4.6%).

Thanks for helping the poor get back on their feet Mr. President!

Poverty rate drops - How did Bush make this happen?student loans company

Bush did it!

That SOB!

Poverty rate drops - How did Bush make this happen?

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Let me get this straight, povety has been increasing for Bush%26#039;s entire tenure in office, and it goes down one year and all of a sudden Bush is a friend fo the poor?? that%26#039;s funny.

to answer your question though

he sent them to Iraq|||He lowered the poverty line|||Only very slightly, still way above when we took over in 2,000. More are uninsured now. We are doing pretty good with what we are working with, guys! Guys, with more service jobs we can cut into that nasty middle class and keep them just above the poverty line and get more people interested in the military this way. Stick with Bush guys.|||He igored the issue. Everything he tries to fix gets screwed up.|||What happened the other 5 years bush was in office? Poverty rates increased? Also from your link:

%26quot;Poverty rate drops, but record number don%26#039;t have insurance%26quot;

Why are you celebrating?|||Bush lowered the poverty rate for the first time in SEVEN YEARS. Whoopee he managed to get it back down to what Clinton had maintained it his entire presidency.|||The inequality in the income distribution CONTINUES to grow.|||They have probably come up with a creative way for tracking this statistic. It probably is skewed in some way.

It probably is not counting those displaced by Hurricanes, those in the Military, illegal aliens etc. etc.

The middle class been eroded under 7 years of Bush. There is a greater gap between the haves and haves nots.|||You can make polls show what you want. Polls are used to spread propaganda.

If you were to do a search on his subject I would imagine you could find several polls that state the opposite.|||Bush cannot please the libs no matter what. He does a good thing, and by the comments here, he still doesn%26#039;t get any credit. But anything bad happens, a bridge or a mine collapsing, and it%26#039;s Bush%26#039;s fault.|||They stopped counting poor people. Voila, fewer poor people.

So, now which conservative think tank do you work for? Because if you%26#039;re not getting paid to post these lies, then you%26#039;re just a fool.|||No, it was the drop in unemployment among the very poor.

And seemingly not the ones who voted for Pres. Bush

But;

%26quot;The nation%26#039;s poverty rate was 12.3 percent in 2006, down from 12.6 percent a year before, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. Median household income increased slightly, to $48,200.%26quot;

%26quot;The last significant decline in the poverty rate came in 2000, during the Clinton administration, when it went from 11.9 percent to 11.3 percent.%26quot;

%26quot;The poverty rate increased every year for the next four years, peaking at 12.7 percent in 2004. It was 12.6 percent in 2005, but Census officials said that change was statistically insignificant.%26quot;

%26quot;Income remains lower than it was six years ago, poverty is higher%26quot;

%26quot;The Census Bureau on Tuesday released 2006 income and poverty figures for all the states and every city and county with a population of 65,000 or more.

Among the findings:

_Maryland led the country with a median household income of $65,144. It was followed by New Jersey, Connecticut, Hawaii and Massachusetts.

_Mississippi had the lowest median income, at $34,473. It was followed by West Virginia, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Alabama.

_Mississippi had the highest poverty rate, at 21.1 percent. It was followed by Louisiana, New Mexico, Arkansas and West Virginia.

_Maryland had the lowest poverty rate, at 7.8 percent. It was followed by New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey and Hawaii. %26quot;|||It%26#039;s called a backdoor draft.. he made it so bad for them.. and made the military look so good with propaganda that they are either dead from starvation or in the army now.... ..... .... .... ... o.0|||I can just feel the prosperity. Do you think we might be able to find a new, pointless war for the U.S. taxpayers to spend another $500,000,000.00 on. I know, lets cut taxes on the rich (those that still bother to pay any) down to 0. More oil subsidies and less social services would help the economy for sure. More billionaires, less funding for schools, hospitals, roads...etc. No more labor unions, we need slave labor to compete with the Asians for our lost manufacturing jobs. Go, Bush. Go to Hell. Thanks for saddling the poor and middle class in the U.S. with a crushing debt that will remain with us for generations, Mr. %26quot;President%26quot;.|||By increasing the number of people without insurance to record levels and altering the definition of poverty.|||Well, the poverty rate went up each and every year of the Bush administration. From 11.3 in 2000, to 12.6 in 2005. Last year, for the first time, there was a slight drop. If the %26quot;tax cuts for working people caused this decline%26quot; they caused a 4 or 5 year increase first! And there were 2 million more people without health insurance in 2006 than there were in 2005. Many of these uninsured are just one serious illness away from poverty themselves|||Finally the tax cuts were able to overcome the damage done by previous tax increases....|||Would you doubt anything less? The Deity%26#039;s are smiling.|||surely you jest!! just because the ranks of the poor moving up to middle class is expanding while unemployment is going down and the stock market is going up.

Has nothing to do with GWB and his brother in law at Halliburton. He is satan, HE IS SATAN, blabber, blabber, foam at the mouth.

You very stinky American!

I never no gonna pay taxes but I%26#039;ll take a refund check anytime! I ain%26#039;t gonna get a job and you can%26#039;t make me.

Go Hillary!!!! and her VP Jane Fonda