• Home
  • News
    • Business
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
    • Legislature
    • Politics / Govt
  • Sports
    • The Bill Pollock Show
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support

Missourinet

Your source for Missouri News and Sports

You are here: Home / News / Missouri jobless rate stable

Missouri jobless rate stable

August 18, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

The state economic development department says Missouri’s unemployment rate held steady last month. But the department is reluctant to say much about a trend.

The 9.3 percent rate, 278-thousand jobless Missourians still eligible for benefits….and about the same as the seasonally-adjusted figures for June, still the highest in a quarter-century. But employment gains are reported in durable goods manufacturing, and increases are reported in our two biggest cities which have been losing jobs for months.

But the calculations usually include anticipated auto industry layoffs for model changeover. And this year there were fewer jobs to be laid off from the auto industry…so that factor was not part of the calculation of unemployment percentage.

Department spokesman John Fougere says August and September might give a truer picture because other mid-year temporary factors will be gone.

The rate that is NOT seasonally adjusted is a tenth of a point higher—and that’s down a tenth from June. Missouri’s numbers are slightly under national numbers.

Upload BPs interview with John Fougere (6:47 mp3)

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: News

Subscribe to our daily newsletter

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published.



Tweets by Missourinet

Sports

Bad second period dooms Blues

The Blues … [Read More...]

Cards offense falters in loss to Nationals

The … [Read More...]

Royals taker series finale with Angels

Salvador … [Read More...]

Ex-Chiefs coach charged with felony DWI

Former … [Read More...]

Mizzou gets opportunity of a lifetime in 2022 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Out of … [Read More...]

More Sports

Tweets by missourisports

Archives

Opinion/Editorials

TwitterFacebook

Copyright © 2021 · Learfield News & Ag, LLC