The Georgia Department of Labor released much of the December data yesterday, but we’re still waiting on some of it. More on that in a moment. Statewide, the number of people filing for unemployment each month continues to fall on…
From the AJC’s Atlanta’s global economic standing: #189: Atlanta’s economy – primarily its employment and income gains over the last year – were so anemic that the city came in at No. 189 in the think tank’s list of top…
I’ve already posted excerpts from and links to a number of credible predictions for the 2012 economy of the Savannah metro area on up to the national economy Today, two more. From Mary Carr Mayle’s Savannah’s outlook for 2012: More…
From Under Obama, a Record Decline in Government Jobs by Floyd Norris at the Economix blog at the NYT: When Barack Obama ran for president four years ago, he appalled some Democrats by saying Ronald Reagan had been a transformational…
From the Bureau of Labor Statistics press release this a.m.: Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 200,000 in December, and the unemployment rate, at 8.5 percent, continued to trend down, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred…
In my City Talk column today, I talk about cuts to education in Georgia over the last few years. I just want to follow up here with a post about total government employment in Georgia using Georgia Department of Labor…
It’s been a pretty good fourth quarter for economic data, especially the recent drop in unemployment rates in the nation as a whole and in Georgia specifically. Now, there are lots of negative trends in that employment data, and there…
From the Georgia Dept. of Labor this morning: State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler announced today that the preliminary unemployment rate in metro Savannah decreased to 8.4 percent in November, down six-tenths of a percentage point from 9.0 percent in October.…
The Milken Institute publishes an annual list of Best-Performing Cities. Here’s the summary of the results in this year’s list: Leaders in this year’s index, which ranks U.S. metros based on their ability to create and sustain jobs, are cities…
The Georgia Department of Labor releases monthly unemployment data in phases, so we don’t yet know if the unemployment rate in the state fell because more people reported having jobs or because more Georgians simply gave up looking for work.…
I’ve been writing a lot lately here on the blog and in my Savannah Morning News columns about the need to focus public policy on job creation and retention. With the 2012 state legislative session looming, I’m going to be…
I’m sure I made a few people angry with my City Talk column today: New city council’s average age is 57; can they relate to younger residents? The gist of it can be summed up in two sentences from the…
If you’d asked me a few weeks ago, I would have said that the federal government would almost certainly extend unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless as part of a package extended the payroll tax cut. But now it looks…
Regular readers of this blog know that I rely on Calculated Risk for a lot of basic economic data. CR presents hard data, compiles key numbers into graphs, and generally gives people like me much of what we need to…
