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The unemployment rate in hard-hit Buncombe County rose from 2.5% in September to 8.8% in October – a jump of more than 6%, according to data from the North Carolina Department of Commerce.
North Carolina’s unemployment rate of 3.4% is virtually in the middle of all 50 states. The rate is slightly higher than those of neighboring states Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina.
North Carolina unemployment: 3.3%. Year to year, 3,571 more people working compared to October 2022. 6,833 unemployed individuals in the region as of October 2023.
U.S. unemployment rate and employment to population ratio (EM ratio) Wage share and employment rate in the U.S. Employment-to-population ratio, also called the employment rate, [1] is a statistical ratio that measures the proportion of a country's working age population (statistics are often given for ages 15 to 64 [2] [3]) that is employed.
Unemployment in the US by State (June 2023) The list of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate compares the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by state and territory, sortable by name, rate, and change. Data are provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment publication.
North Carolina: 58.7 2.2 36 Hawaii ... South Carolina: ... 0.6 50 West Virginia: 52.5 1.3 See also. List of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate; Job ...
North Carolina had one of the nation's highest increases in unemployment during the recession. The unemployment rate rose 6.5 percentage points between November 2007 and January 2010.
The Bureau of Labor was established within the Department of the Interior on June 27, 1884, to collect information about employment and labor. Its creation under the Bureau of Labor Act (23 Stat. 60) stemmed from the findings of U.S. Senator Henry W. Blair's "Labor and Capital Hearings", which examined labor issues and working conditions in the U.S. [6] Statistician Carroll D. Wright became ...