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Monday, April 5, 2010
News / Biz March statistics send mixed messages on economy
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:57 AM
From our friends at ProPublica.org:
March unemployment statistics are out today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the unemployment rate appears to have held steady at 9.7 percent. That’s what it’s been for all of 2010, so far.On the whole, 162,000 jobs were added in March. McClatchy reports that this is the “strongest job growth since the nation entered recession in 2007 and the strongest confirmation yet that the U.S. economy is on the mend.”
But take this job creation statistic with another statistic.
In the same month, U.S. bankruptcy filings reached their highest since 2005, with 158,141 American consumers and businesses filing for bankruptcy. That’s a 35 percent increase from February, and a 20 percent increase from March 2009. According to Reuters, the new bankruptcy figure reflects “the unevenness of the economy’s stabilization after the deepest recession since the 1930s.”
Video from the grand opening of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library's Job Help Center in January is below. Note that the library's hours have changed, effective today. Check the hours for the job center and your local branch here.
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