Alabama Unemployment Continues to Rise

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Published: 8/17/2012 5:46 pm

Updated: 8/17/2012 6:09 pm

(MOBILE, Ala.) Alabama's unemployment rose half a percentage point in the month of July.

The state's rate is now at 8.3% according to the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations. Part of the reason for the increase, a higher number of partial unemployment claims. Those are claims filed by workers who have been laid off for less than three weeks.

In Mobile County the number of unemployed is more than 10%, that's about 19,600 people looking for work. Meanwhile Baldwin the numbers haven't moved, nearly 7,000 people are jobless.

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CrimsonTide14 - 8/17/2012 11:02 PM

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Unemployment rose in 44 States smart guy!! It's a national crisis not just in places that enacted illegal immigrant enforcement laws like Alabama, Arizona, Georgia etc. Thanks to Obama US unemployment has been over 8.2% for 42 straight months, another new record he holds. Along with a record higher rate in US poverty, record amount of food stamps recipients, people filing for disability because they can't find work, record foreclosures, businesses failing, and every aspect of the economy in decline Obama has really done a great job of destroying the US.

Ritootm - 8/17/2012 10:27 PM

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What happened to all those jobs "they" said we see for Alabama “citizens” when we ran all the "illegals" out of the state? When we saw a drop in the unemployment rate “they” were seen and heard everywhere saying “I told you so”. Now let’s see if “they” even show their faces.

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