Washington’s unemployment rate fell to 5.8 percent in September, from a recent high of 6 percent in August, with the majority of job losses coming in the public sector:
More than 11,600 jobs were lost in the government sector in September, with 79 percent of those jobs in local government and 19 percent from state government.
So WA’s unemployment rate is 5.8 percent compared to 6.1 percent nationally (only 4.6 percent in the Seattle metropolitan area), while the state has shown a 1 percent net increase in jobs over the past 12 months, compared to a 0.7 percent decline nationally. And the vast majority of the job losses these days are in the government sector.
So what exactly is Dino Rossi’s complaint about the way Gov. Gregoire is handling our budget and our economy?
Great, our state is doing only slightly better than the rest of the nation…Not exactly something we should be proud of…I’m just saying…
Don’t you understand? Things are going too well, so we need to get a repub in office to really screw things up. We’ll have a higher unemployment rate in no time! /snark
This is absolutely hysterical!!
Read the text of the Press Release by the Washington State Employment Security Department!! Whose Dept. Head was appointed by & reports to GREGOIRE!!!
Pardon me for being CYNICAL but this report by GREGOIRE’S OWN PEOPLE is more than a little suspicious.
Watch the report AFTER the Election. They often correct these numbers. That would be even more scandalous.
Elway says Gregoire by 13%
Gregoire’s own Dept. of Employment Security says unemployment has miraculously improved and government employment is down????
Yeah right.
Please show me what State Government Jobs were cut—
According to Gregoire’s peps…
it’s 19% X 11,600==2204 State Employees lost their jobs.
Show me the 2,204!!!
Where did this poll come from, McSlermotts
district?