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Grim Unemployment News Actually Much Grimmer, If You Think About It

July 24, 2009 – 3:10 pm

Yesterday the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet (KEWDC) released some typically bleak data regarding the Commonwealth’s unemployment levels that, while legitimately bleak, don’t even come close to painting the actual, “face-of-death bleak” picture that is more in tune with reality.

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Unemployment: Jeff. Co. Down, KY Up

June 2, 2009 – 1:46 pm

We wonder if the Mongiardo campaign will interpret the following as an example of Jack Conway’s nefarious “Louisville-bias”:
Year-over-year unemployment rates rose in all 120 Kentucky counties from April 2008 to April 2009, but there also was good news regarding the local economy in statistics released Tuesday by the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training.
The agency, [...]

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So Much For Those Hallmark Sales

March 26, 2009 – 2:53 pm

More depressing numbers ahead: The February unemployment rate in the Bluegrass has exceeded 9% for the first time since 1986 (when Ronnie was following Nancy’s astrological Day Planner, the Challenger space shuttle exploded, and gas grew on trees), and is up from January’s relatively sunnier 8.8%. Given our state’s largely undereducated workforce, the fact that [...]

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Unemployment: The New Black?

March 20, 2009 – 9:48 am

Okay, so maybe not having a job isn’t exactly the hottest trend to have started in New York, but that won’t stop eager Louisvillians from jumping aboard the breadline bandwagon: According to state reports released yesterday, the unemployment rate in the River City has shot up to 9.4% , which basically works out to 1 [...]

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