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This just in… Illinois unemployment rises to 10 percent
Thursday, Oct 20, 2011 - Posted by Rich Miller * 12:18 pm - From an Illinois Department of Employment Security press release…
* Unlike the rest of this year, government layoffs weren’t much of a factor. According to IDES, the same number of people were employed by state and local governments in September as in August. The year-over-year numbers are pretty astounding, however. Government employment is down 13,200 when compared to September of last year, far more than the 2nd place category, “Information,” which is off by 4,300. The biggest month-to-month drops were in construction (3,000), financial activities (1,800) and information (1,200).
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- Retired Non-Union Guy - Thursday, Oct 20, 11 @ 12:34 pm:
“The year-over-year numbers are pretty astounding, however. Government employment is down 13,200 when compared to September of last year …”
I know State government numbers aren’t off that much, so I’m assuming most of the year over year government cuts were all at the local level’s?
- too obvious - Thursday, Oct 20, 11 @ 12:52 pm:
Pat Brady rolls out IL GOP online petition drive de jour taking political advantage of citizen misery in 5..4..3..2..
- SportShoz - Thursday, Oct 20, 11 @ 12:54 pm:
I love how ComEd front group “SmartEnergyIL” is already trying to use this to push their rate hike bill SB1652.
SB1652 after all includes $13.7 MILLION for “worforce reduction program severance costs.” Which will be paid for by consumers and businesses in annual rate increases.
I guess ComEd never misses an opportunity to push their bad bill.
- sue - Thursday, Oct 20, 11 @ 1:39 pm:
How many jobs is Quinn flushing down the toilet by not getting a chicago casino ?
- TwoFeetThick - Thursday, Oct 20, 11 @ 3:18 pm:
Unemployment up? I thought all those tax cuts for “job creators” were supposed to create jobs all over the place. Hmmmm… Funny, if cutting taxes is supposed to rev up the jobs machine, and those cuts have now been in place for over ten years, how the heck did we end up here? I guess we should double-down on stupid and cut taxes for the wealthy even more.
Oh, and before anyone points out that Illinois increased its taxes, thereby nullifying the federal cuts, I’d point out that the jobs situation continues to be in the crapper nationwide (for the most part), even in states with lower state taxes than Illinois. And, it was dire before Illinois increased taxes. And, the size of the federal cuts for the wealthy makes Illinois’ increase look piddly, in comparison. If people don’t have jobs, they won’t be buying. If people aren’t buying, businesses have no reason to rev up production and create more jobs, even if the amount of taxes they pay is zero (which it is, for some giant and very profitable corporations).
Lower taxes ain’t the answer.
- 47th Ward - Thursday, Oct 20, 11 @ 4:09 pm:
If only Illinois had a capital bill to help those unemployed construction workers…oh, wait. We have a bill, passed it two years ago, and we are still a few years away from funding it.
Thank goodness Quinn is making the elimination of legislative tuition waivers his top priority.
- Cincinnatus - Thursday, Oct 20, 11 @ 4:46 pm:
TwoFeetThick,
Lower taxes is not the answer when you are at the same time increasing spending beyond revenues.
47th,
But Quinn has a twofer, getting rid of the corruption and cttin spending at the same time! Then he can wipe his brow and head home to the Motel 6. Job well done, Pat, rainbows and unicorns abound!
- Commonsense in Illinois - Thursday, Oct 20, 11 @ 4:49 pm:
Well said, 47th…In other news, the State Education Labor Relations Board is apparently siding with the Chicago Teachers Union in blocking a longer school day.
The results of the latest Prairie State Achievement Test show that about half of Illinois high school juniors are failing math, science and reading-the worst performance the Prairie State Achievement Test has ever shown.
And finally…wait for it…Illinois is falling further behind in meeting the requirements set by the No Child Left Behind law. Illinois education officials now say they’ll seek an exemption from the act.
And the focus of the veto session is gambling and spending more money we don’t have.
Is it me or is something wrong with this picture?
- Allen Skillicorn - Thursday, Oct 20, 11 @ 4:59 pm:
“Lower taxes ain’t the answer.”
…and higher taxes are?
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Oct 20, 11 @ 5:30 pm:
Some folks continue to have faith in their politics contrary to the failures surrounding them. Of course unemployment is up.
- Demoralized - Thursday, Oct 20, 11 @ 6:01 pm:
VM:
That’s partisan garbage.
- Just Me - Thursday, Oct 20, 11 @ 6:03 pm:
It is a good thing that creating jobs is Pat Quinn’s #1 priority for the Veto Session.
Oh wait, it isn’t.
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Oct 20, 11 @ 6:54 pm:
What part is partisan?
You must be feeling like it applies to you for some reason. Nothing I wrote.
- Holdingontomywallet - Thursday, Oct 20, 11 @ 7:02 pm:
Yes, let’s raise taxes during a bad economy that includes very high unemployment numbers - brilliant!
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Oct 20, 11 @ 7:17 pm:
We so did not need a decade of crappy governors. We were at the end of our rope in 2002. The last thing we needed was Buffonavich and Quinn after Ryan.
We sure saw the limits of Madigan’s skills too, didn’t we? Even with his decades of experience the guy ended up a lot more small ball than we needed, a giant among corrupt pygmies.
The GOP died and the Dems gave us nothing.
Honestly, I know this stuff can seem cyclical, but why did we have to have the worse governance at a time when we could not afford it?
A pox on both parties - they suck worse than a hurricane.
- wordslinger - Friday, Oct 21, 11 @ 8:08 am:
We live in interesting times.