According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, for January 2010:
…The largest over-the-month decreases in employment occurred in Missouri and Ohio (-12,800 each), followed by Kentucky (-11,800), New Jersey (-9,100), Florida (-6,100), and Nevada (-5,700). Kentucky (-0.7 percent) experienced the largest over-the-month percentage decrease in employment, followed by Missouri and Nevada (-0.5 percent each), and Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi, and Ohio (-0.3 percent each)….
The percentage unemployment for Missouri, compared to a year ago:
Missouri
January 2009 – 8.1%
January 2010 (preliminary) – 9.5%
Over-the-year rate change (preliminary) – 1.4%
[emphasis added]
The actual numbers (seasonally adjusted):
Missouri
Civilian labor force (Numbers in thousands)
January 2009 – 3,053.0
November 2009 – 3,008.5
December 2009 – 3,001.4
January 2010 (preliminary) – 2,994.5Unemployed (Numbers in thousands)
January 2009 – 246.4
November 2009 – 290.2
December 2009 – 288.0
January 2010 (preliminary) – 283.0Unemployed (Percent of labor force)
January 2009 – 8.1%
November 2009 – 9.6%
December 2009 – 9.6%
January 2010 (preliminary) – 9.5%
[emphasis added]
It could be worse, President McCain (r) and Governor Hulshof (r) could be on the Sunday tee-vee talk shows telling us, “We’re doing nothing because nothing is the best thing to do. All is well!”
because Senator Bond, Reps. Blunt, Akin, Luetkemeyer, Emerson were all in the congress saying “do as little as possible” and are now saying “we won’t do another thing.” Thank God they were scared enough by the Bush crash that they didn’t dare not act at all.