Aren’t things supposed to get better during a recovery?
The unemployment rate here rose for the fourth straight month in August, hitting 7.3 percent, the state said Monday.
With the surge from July’s 6.9 percent, the jobless rate has bounced back to its December level, erasing months of progress. The July-to-August increase is the biggest month-to-month gain since the uptick from January 2009 to February 2009. “It’s not encouraging,” said Bill Sholly, an analyst with the state Department of Labor & Industry.
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Lancaster County’s jobless rate climbed to 6.7 percent in June, up from May’s 6.4 percent, the state said Monday. The June figure marked the second consecutive month that the jobless rate here grew, the Department of Labor & Industry report showed. Until June, the rate had risen only three times in the last 15 months since peaking during the economic downturn at 8.1 percent in February 2010.
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Layoffs at the Manheim Auto Auction have taken twice as big a toll on its work force as expected. An auction executive said Friday that the Route 72 business recently laid off 96 employees, not the “fewer than 50” he predicted in early June. Tim VanDam, vice president and general manager, explained that the number of layoffs rose because a new factor came into play.
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June 30, 2011
Since the jobless rate here peaked in February 2010 at 8.1 percent, it’s declined almost every month. Almost. The Lancaster County unemployment rate rose to 6.4 percent in May from April’s 6.3 percent, the state announced Monday. The slight uptick is only the third increase in the local jobless rate since that February spike, according […]
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June 1, 2011
The good news: the jobless rate in Lancaster County continues to decline as of April. The bad news: a job is still tough to get, and the majority of jobs added in April where in the seasonal and typically fragile leisure and hospitality sector reflecting the prospects for summer tourism. As I tell my friends, […]
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