North Carolina’s unemployment rate inched up to 11.1 percent in January from 10.9 in December, indicating that firms were not yet ready to add full-time workers to the payroll.
You also might be interested to know that the state is now 9th in the country for unemployment and is about to spend a solid year with double-digit joblessness. I guess hiking sales taxes while negotiating taxpayer-funded “job creation” efforts is not exactly an economic stimulus, huh Bev?
And remember that Mecklenburg’s rate has been running equal to if not higher than the statewide rate. We’ll get the county-by-county data on March 19th. Expect the worst.
