New State unemployment figures out: Oregon highest, S.Dakota lowest

These numbers will probably give you a better idea on the job situation in your area than the national unemployment rate. The unemployment rate in Oregon is a whopping 8.1% while in South Dakota it is only 3.3%. Unlike the national unemployment rate, unemployment insurance data is one factor used to estimate state unemployment figures.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/laus.pdf
Compared with June, unemployment rates were higher in 25 states, lower in 15 states and the District of Columbia, and unchanged in 10 states. Indiana and Louisiana had the largest over-the-month rate increases (+0.6 percentage point each). The next largest increase was recorded by West Virginia (+0.5 percentage point). No state reported a jobless rate decrease of greater than 0.4 percentage point.

New York State is 6.1%. New York City is so hoss they treat it like a state and their unemployment rate is 8.1%. Both of these numbers are pretty much unchanged.

June Labor Force; July Labor Force; June Unemployed; July Unemployed; June rate; July rate (thousands)
New York ..... 9,377.5 9,365.4 574.8 571.6 6.1 6.1
New York City ..... 3,672.2 3,669.0 296.6 296.1 8.1 8.1

Oregon. They have to always sneak him in here with a full compliment of police cordoning off blocks of protestors, will he ever learn he is not wanted.

Does anyone know when/where they are happening?

Neighbors fear worst as activists, police hone
actics for Thursday visit
By DON HAMILTON, JENNIFER ANDERSON AND JIM
REDDEN Issue date: Tue, Aug 19, 2003
The Tribune

The battleground for Portland protests
shifts this week from downtown to the
University of Portland, where President
Bush is scheduled to hold a
$2,000-per-person campaign fund-raiser
Thursday.

Local protesters say they will try to shut
down the lunch by keeping donors from
reaching the Chiles Center, which is on the
northern edge of the North Portland campus.
Several activists who asked not to be identified
said organizers see disrupting the fund-raiser
as the most effective way of protesting Bush
and his policies.

Meanwhile, neighbors are watching to see
what happens.

"Today's protest movement is totally out of
line," said Judy Chambers, a Bush supporter
and a member of the University Park
Neighborhood Association. "I read about all the
plans, and it's going to be an absolute zoo up
here. We are concerned about safety and
concerned about our property. I'm for people
protesting peacefully. I support their rights and
the democratic process. With that said, I think
the Portland style of protesting is ridiculous.
It's allowed to go too far."

Police officers from Portland and other cities
met on campus Monday morning with the
Secret Service to make plans for dealing with
the expected crowd of protesters for the event,
which, unlike last year's presidential visit, will
be in a quiet neighborhood rather than
downtown. Law enforcement authorities also
discussed how to prevent protesters from
blocking donor access to the fund-raiser and
how to keep area residents and their homes
safe. However, organizers said details about
the president's visit could change.

Mayor Vera Katz said police have a strategy
for making sure Bush supporters reach the
event safely but provided no details.

"Let's just say we learned a lot last time
about how to get them in and out," she said
Monday.

Portland Police Chief Mark Kroeker said the
police will maintain "a proper buffer between
donors and demonstrators."

"Nothing is easy about a presidential visit.
It's always difficult no matter where it is,"
Kroeker said.

Police officials refused to offer more details
about how the president will travel to the
campus and their plans for managing his visit,
saying they were still awaiting more
information from the Bush administration about
where resources would be needed.

One police source said there are tentative
plans to erect a fence around the area
Wednesday night.

Melissa Delaney, North Portland crime
specialist, said fliers are going out to
neighborhood residents this morning, notifying
them of the disruptions to traffic.

"We're trying to make the best of a
less-than-perfect situation," she said. Delaney
said anyone with questions could call the
neighborhood office at 503-823-4525.

Activists have announced two rallies and
marches before the fund-raiser. The Portland
Peaceful Response Coalition has applied for a
city permit to stage a four-block march to the
center from Portsmouth Park, located at North
Stanford Avenue and Depauw Street. A
different ad hoc group has called for protesters
to gather at 10 a.m. Thursday at Columbia
Park at North Woolsey Avenue and Lombard
Street and march about 1.7 miles to the
campus. They have not applied for a permit.

The president will spend only a few hours in
town. He's expected to arrive late morning for
the $2,000 per person lunch, where he may
bring in upward of $1 million for Bush-Cheney
'04, his re-election committee. No public events
are on his schedule in Portland, but after the
lunch he'll fly to Central Oregon to highlight his
plan to increase forest thinning and then to
Seattle for more fund raising.

Residents not notified

Although police and political activists have
been making plans for the visit for weeks,
some university neighbors told the Tribune
they had not been formally notified that Bush
would be coming as of Monday morning.

University student Helen Anderson, who lives
across the street from the Chiles Center, said:
"I think I got an e-mail from the university that
said dignitaries would be visiting Thursday, but
they didn't say it was the president."

Longtime resident Evelyn Manetre, who also
lives near the Chiles Center, said that the only
person who contacted her about the visit was
an anti-Bush activist who visited her on
Sunday.

"He was a very polite young man. He gave
me a flier and a poster that said 'Just Say No
to Bush' that he said I could put in my
window," said Manetre, who was not planning
to post the sign.

University of Portland officials would not
discuss why the Bush campaign chose the
Chiles Center for the fund-raiser, citing security
concerns.

The campus is private property, giving police
more latitude in controlling access. There are
three access points to the campus, which is
surrounded on two sides by the high bluff
above the Willamette River. But the Chiles
Center sits on the edge of the campus at the
intersection of two residential streets, North
Willamette Boulevard and Portsmouth Avenue.

Portland police spent $180,000 in overtime
to cover the president's last visit, an Aug. 22,
2002, downtown fund-raising lunch for
Republican U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith. That visit
attracted 1,300 (1,300 ??? try 8,000) protesters and prompted the
use of pepper spray and rubber bullets by
police. About 400 officers from Portland,
Beaverton, Tualatin, Tigard and the Oregon
State Police were involved.

Portland attorney Alan Graf sued the city on
behalf of nine protesters involved in last year's
visit. In the suit, Graf charged that the police
violated the protesters' First Amendment rights
by using excessive force to disperse the
crowds. The city has requested a conference to
discuss settling the case before U.S. District
Judge Ann Aiken on Sept. 15.

This year, protesters plan to videotape the
demonstration to document any cases of police
misconduct. In fact, Graf spoke last week at a
seminar for protesters titled "How to Shoot
Litigation Quality Video." He said the goal of
the seminar was to train activists to shoot
videos that can be used as evidence against
the police in any civil rights lawsuits that grow
out of the protests.

"Videos don't lie," Graf said.

Well the evil moron arrives here in Portland on thursday the 21aug
I hope they protest him out of town

Washington is #3!

Now where did I put that damned job?

Eat it, all you Appalachian mofos! Up yours, you backwoods hicks in Mississippi and Arkansas! Oregon's leading the way to the 15th Century now!

And we get the added bonus of a personal visit from Chimpy himself, which the Oregonian newspaper felt obliged to remind us today is "an honor" and "a bargain" (security cost-wise). So suck it down, California! When it comes to being King Turd of Loserville Island, Oregon's got you all beat nine ways from Sunday!

We're number 1! We're number 1!

If you don't want to find a job, that is. Washington is losing ground. I can't believe Alaska beat us out for #2. Actually, Oregon better watch out - Alaska is hot on your tails.

Why are Californians still moving here?

How did they justify that remark. I was under the impression it was going to cost Oregon several hundred thousand dollars for security. Oregon is flat broke so how is that a bargain? Less school more Bush*shit.

The standard anti-matter language the Oregonian uses in its more obtuse editorials doesn't quite spell out how this is "a bargain" for its readership. However, considering that Mr. Bush will raise several thousand dollars in campaign funds and won't have to pay for security, I presume his corrupt minions including the Oregonian would regard that as "a bargain."

And I won't even have to take Thusday off because I'M FUCKING UNEMPLOYED.

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:iYJ51HHKzmoC:

I just KNEW you could do it! <wipes away a happy tear>

Here's your tiarra, lovely sash, and a fresh bouquet of unemployment applications. Enjoy!

Nearly ever national story is an AP wire report or something from the NY Times. The writing level is sixth-grade (maybe lower?). Every time they call to try to get me to subscribe I tell them I'll subscribe when they start reporting news and bulk up their writing. I don't think that'll happen so I'll probably never subscribe.

I've always felt that Oregonians are just good at counting. I'm sure the numbers are higher in other places, but they just don't have the ability to count all the unemployed. Having lived in Florida and NJ for years, I can tell you there are plenty of houses packed with people that the government have no Idea are there and NOT working. Oregonian tend to follow the rules, so I don't expect much manipulation of the numbers here in Oregon as I do in other places.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

Yes SD has a low unemployment rate because alot of companies have moved there because of the low cost of doing business. But the wages stink. At Gateway people start at about $9 per hour and only go up to about $18-$20. But then you can buy a house there for less than $50k.

since it was so close in 2000.

for many years--like California?

if you add in the 5%+ that Nader polled, Oregon is very solidly Democratic on the national level.

Because so much money has been sucked out of the state's economy, things will be so much worse here by November of next year that shrub will be losing a lot of old school Republican votes, too.