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Local jobless numbers

Jun 10, 2010 11:06 pm

From Dick May's Seeing Greene blog:"...in GreeneLand, as usual, the job situation is worse than other nearby counties. Percentages of unemployed persons in relation to total membership of the “work force,” in April of this year as compared with the previous month and with the same month last year:

	4/10	3/10	4/09
USA	9.9	9.7	8.9
New York State	8.4	7.7	8.0
Upstate NYS	7.5	7.6	7.6
Dutchess County	7.2	7.7	6.8
Ulster	7.2	7.9	7.0
Albany	6.2	6.5	6.2
Rensselaer	7.0	7.9	7.0
Columbia	6.9	7.8	6.9
GREENE	8.1	8.6	8.5