On Friday, the BLS released its regional and state unemployment rates for July. The situation remained bleak, with 14 states reporting increases in unemployment rates and 18 states reporting no change to unemployment rates.
Other indicators were also disappointing. Home foreclosure rates rose 4% in July, per RealtyTrac.com. July marked the 17th successive month in which 300,000 or more home fell into foreclosure. Also, for fiscal year 2011, the combined budget shortfalls for all states is excepted to reach $121.1 billion, per the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Click here to see Bankrupting America’s recently updated “economic cheat sheet of all 50 states” to see how your state fares in comparison to others.
It would be helpful to include statistics on the number of jobs that were saved or created. Thanks.
@ Pfeiffer: If you click the “here” part of “Click here to see Bankrupting America’s recently…” it will bring up a pdf file which includes (on a state by state basis) the number of jobs added since the stimulus was passed
History has shown that you can not spend your way out of a recession. Democrats are huge spenders. Always have been and always will be. Right now there are so many things wrong with what our countries leaders are doing to generations of americans. IT SICKENS ME !!! I want Barack Hussein Obama IMPEACHED NOW and all his cabinet members fired. These people are out of their minds. The President of the United States of America does not bow to any man. He does not appear on late nite tv talk shows. He does not seek counsel from domestic terrorists. He does not involve himself with radicals. He does not quietly pass bills the majority dont want behind closed without the input from the other side of the isle. He does not allow the black panthers to stand outside a polling location with clubs in their hands screaming that they want to kill cracker babies and then not press any charges against them. BUT PRESIDENT OBAMA DOES!!!
WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!!!
@John Walker: You misspelled ‘country’s', ‘night’ and ‘aisle’
@Zach – are we to assume that you agree with the context of the text you are correcting??
There are so many things going on in this administration that the citizens of this country find abhorrent and I believe that the lame duck session of this congress will do a lot more damage before they are out of office in January. I pray that conservatives take a SIGNIFICANT lead and are able to pursue impeachment and repeal of all laws and policies that this “domestic terrorist” has implemented!
it is time america stops funding a government that has turned its back on us. the government works for the people. we send out taxes to a government who use our money to get bigger and take over. the irs is a good example. if you dont want to pay ur taxes due to a government that doesnt have ur best interest at heart then u have to ask the irs that they not take everything u own, our government is corrupt. i wouldnt be surprised if there was a revolution in the works.i would not mind if terrorist of this world targeted the us capital buildings. they would be helping start an american rebuild. obama is destroying our country. to build a mosk where americans died. he is spitting on america and dareing the american people to stop him. he isnt worth having as president. impeach obama and undo all he has done. bailouts bull who will bail us out. we are being run by a stupid government that doesnt know what its doing. they need to go down. so anyone out there interested. …AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY UNITE.
so i want to ask you to start hoarding food.ammo. get ready for martial law when it is instigated you know to get out .readyreservefood.com
Partial information for July can be misleading.
18 states the same, 18 states increase, and 14 states decrease is a little rosier than what you presented.
But the a truer picture would be to show the trend for these statistics.
Also showing the trend for the rate change on the sum of all unemployed persons in the U.S. is an essential statistic to report.
Yea!
We need to cut the budget! But we need to hit the big expenditures – See the top 4 below.
Federal Budget 2010, in order of largest expenditures to smallest
Department of Health and Human Services – $879 Billion – of that $452 Billion Medicare & $289 Billion Medicaid
Department of Defense – $680 Billion – Wow room for cuts here
Treasury Department – $495 Billion – of that $414 Billion on National Debt – More than a Billion dollars a day
Department of Labor – $104 Billion
The rest of the departments are less than a 100 Billion but I’m sure can find cuts.
I love it.
All this talk of impeachment and spending and rabble rabble rabble…
Where were you when GW got us into an illegal war that cost us BILLIONS? How can you overlook that?!? Where were the calls for impeachment then? The issues you take with the current administration don’t involve the loss of LIVES.