Arizona’s Unemployment Rate Rises

Submitted by Janet_Perez on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 4:02pm

losses in government employmentThe number of Arizonans without a job grew in December as the state’s unemployment rate climbed to 9.1 percent. Unemployment stood at 8.9 percent in November.

The Arizona Department of Commerce reports today in its Arizona Workforce Employment Report that the state lost a net 1,700 jobs in December. In December 2008, Arizona lost 19,600 jobs. In addition, while the economy is still losing jobs, the rate of loss has slowed over the last four months from -7.7 percent in August to -4.8 percent in December.

While the private sector gained jobs for the third month in a row in December, those additions were canceled out by losses in government employment. The private sector added 3,000 jobs, while government shed 4,700 positions. Most of the government job losses were in state and local public education, which were mostly attributed to seasonal factors.

December job gains in Arizona were made in trade, transportation, and utilities (+4,400); educational and health services (+1,800); and financial activities (+1,000). Professional and business services were flat. Posting losses were construction (-2,300); manufacturing (-700); other services (-700); information (-300); natural resources and mining (-100); and leisure and hospitality (-100).

Around the state, only the Tucson and Yuma metro areas saw increases in unemployment:

 Phoenix Metro: 8.4%

 Tucson Metro: 8.1%

 Yuma Metro: 24.4%

 Flagstaff Metro: 8.2%

 Prescott Metro: 9.3%

 LHC‐Kingman Metro: 9.8% 

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Submitted by Rohit on Thu, 01/28/2010 - 10:19pm.
Continued increase in unemployment rate has to be stopped. Government should take the lead in the aspect of creating more job opportunities.We need to boost employment opportunities. Remember it’s been a year that we had been hit by global recession and we are hoping this year we can fill up the gap left due to the mass laid off. The number of jobless has to decrease, as that means more people would be making and thus spending money – and the government gave out payday loans to Wall Street to affect that, though the results are mixed, at best. There are two ways to tell if more people are employed – one is tax returns, the other is the number of people filing for unemployment benefits, and they are decreasing. The number