Florida’s November Employment Figures Released

Flagler County second highest again. Flagler’s rate up to 16.6%. Flagler ranks second highest among counties. Palm Coast highest among MSAs.

Palm Coast, FL – December 17, 2010 – Florida’s Agency for Workforce Innovation announced Florida’s November employment figures today. Again, Flagler County ranked second among Florida’s counties. Palm Coast ranked highest among the state’s Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs).
 
County Rankings

Florida Counties Ranked by Unemployment Rate

Rank

County

Rate (%)

1

Hendry

17.9

2

Flagler

16.6

3

Hernando

15.2

4

St. Lucie

15.2

5

Marion

14.6

6

Indian River

14.5

7

Okeechobee

14.5

8

Hardee

14.1

9

Putnam

14.1

10

Citrus

13.8

 

Florida

12.2

 

United States

9.3

 
Metropolitan Statistical Areas Rankings
Florida MSAs Ranked by Unemployment

Rank

MSA

Rate (%)

1

Palm Coast

16.6

2

Ocala MSA

14.6

3

Sebastian-Vero Beach MSA

14.5

4

Port St. Lucie MSA

14.3

5

Cape Coral-Ft. Myers MSA

13.3

6

Lakeland-Winter Haven MSA

13.3

7

Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall MD

13.0

8

Punta Gorda MSA

12.9

9

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach MSA

12.6

10

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater MSA

12.6

 

Florida

12.2

 

United States

9.3

 
Source: Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation, Labor Market Statistics Center, Local Area Unemployment Statistics Program, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Rates are not seasonally adjusted and are subject to revision.
The Palm Coast MSA is defined as Flagler County.
Flagler’s unemployment rate was 15.6% in October and 15.9% in November 2009. In November, there were 5,411 Flagler residents unemployed and 27,204 employed from a total labor force of 32,615.

2 replies
  1. silvia
    silvia says:

    Tariff on Imports

    Why do we have the highest unemployment of the last decades in Flagler County and the nation?..Very simple, because when we go shopping all is Made in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Shri Lanka, Turkey etc etc and some items in *Canada or * Mexico that, as being our next door neighbors, is strategically less financially undermining as they both buy from us ten times more than any of the above mentioned Asian countries together.
    Since 2001 over 47,000 factories have relocated overseas taking along the jobs of millions of Americans. The ridiculous excuses are : A) our government tax those corporations too high, B) our workers are unskilled, lazy and too expensive as they have medical and other benefits to be paid for and are mostly unionized and C) all these makes their products unable to compete on our USA and world markets!
    To A, B and C the bare reality reply should be A) our government not only do not tax them too much to the contrary gives them tax incentives and breaks so they can use those Americans hard earned tax payers funds to open factories overseas where also they do not have our government monitoring and preventing the illegal pollution that many contaminate that environment with . B) they open factories overseas because they can profit from *slavery wages like of about $140/month in China to stand in front of an assembly line 40/hours a week, as reported. Does not matter the skills of the worker then and that shows in the quality of the products we only have available to buy. Slavery is very profitable. C) Our Made in the USA products will be able to compete in prices if were not subject to Asian, especially Chinese price dumping, in our domestic market. All with our elected politicians blessings. Also if these corporations greed will not be the driving force, to take our jobs elsewhere. Tax them when they bring their stuff back to sell to us and outsourcing will die.
    This will all be swiftly resolved by imposing import tariffs/taxes to all that competes with our domestic manufacturing just like every other country in the world does! Utilize that huge income to reward with tax breaks and tax incentives only those corporations bringing their outsource manufacturing and jobs back to our USA and bringing by doing so our millions of jobs back! We can produce all what we consume and we are the largest consumer market in the world…not by the greater millions that we are, but by being able to earn enough decent wages to pay for the goods we need to buy! That is why we are being drowned in imports…but our buying power is quickly disappearing along with our jobs!
    Our politicians in both parties are too concerned to upset China as we owe them billions in government loans and also to upset the greed of the corporate world….why? if we bring our jobs back and also propel our exports we will pay that debt overnight! Every one of us, child woman and man in our country will be $40,000 richer and not in debt. The corporate greed will be brought back be force to a reality revenue, just like it used to be.
    As we unfortunately don’t know if Congress will ever pass a bill imposing tariff on imports then we may need to all pull together starting a peaceful battle just by trying to buy Made in the USA only in as much as possible….I see already that trend in our highways the brand new GM’s and Ford’s kudos to them. What about we try harder in the rest of all electronics clothing and all we need to buy? If those items are not available Made in the USA write the manufacturer and tell them you will buy them when they will make them here. After all, what is good about having all these cheap and *doubtful quality Asian merchandise available when we do not even have the jobs to be able to afford those?

    *https://www.suite101.com/content/canadas-top-exports-imports-a25174
    *https://www.economywatch.com/world_economy/mexico/export-import.htm
    *lhttps://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2010/12/21/toyota-to-pay-32m-in-penalties-over.html?ana=yfcpc
    *https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/07/foxconn-suicide-factory-r_n_602870.html

  2. silvia
    silvia says:

    Buy Made in USA to recover our jobs!

    Why do we have the highest unemployment of the last decades in Flagler County and the nation?..Very simple, because when we go shopping all is Made in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Shri Lanka, Turkey etc etc and some items in *Canada or * Mexico that, as being our next door neighbors, is strategically less financially undermining as they both buy from us ten times more than any of the above mentioned Asian countries together.
    Since 2001 over 47,000 factories have relocated overseas taking along the jobs of millions of Americans. The ridiculous excuses are : A) our government tax those corporations too high, B) our workers are unskilled, lazy and too expensive as they have medical and other benefits to be paid for and are mostly unionized and C) all these makes their products unable to compete on our USA and world markets!
    To A, B and C the bare reality reply should be A) our government not only do not tax them too much to the contrary gives them tax incentives and breaks so they can use those Americans hard earned tax payers funds to open factories overseas where also they do not have our government monitoring and preventing the illegal pollution that many contaminate that environment with . B) they open factories overseas because they can profit from *slavery wages like of about $140/month in China to stand in front of an assembly line 40/hours a week, as reported. Does not matter the skills of the worker then and that shows in the quality of the products we only have available to buy. Slavery is very profitable. C) Our Made in the USA products will be able to compete in prices if were not subject to Asian, especially Chinese price dumping, in our domestic market. All with our elected politicians blessings. Also if these corporations greed will not be the driving force, to take our jobs elsewhere. Tax them when they bring their stuff back to sell to us and outsourcing will die.
    This will all be swiftly resolved by imposing import tariffs/taxes to all that competes with our domestic manufacturing just like every other country in the world does! Utilize that huge income to reward with tax breaks and tax incentives only those corporations bringing their outsource manufacturing and jobs back to our USA and bringing by doing so our millions of jobs back! We can produce all what we consume and we are the largest consumer market in the world…not by the greater millions that we are, but by being able to earn enough decent wages to pay for the goods we need to buy! That is why we are being drowned in imports…but our buying power is quickly disappearing along with our jobs!
    Our politicians in both parties are too concerned to upset China as we owe them billions in government loans and also to upset the greed of the corporate world….why? if we bring our jobs back and also propel our exports we will pay that debt overnight! Every one of us, child woman and man in our country will be $40,000 richer and not in debt. The corporate greed will be brought back be force to a reality revenue, just like it used to be.
    As we unfortunately don’t know if Congress will ever pass a bill imposing tariff on imports then we may need to all pull together starting a peaceful battle just by trying to buy Made in the USA only in as much as possible….I see already that trend in our highways the brand new GM’s and Ford’s kudos to them. What about we try harder in the rest of all electronics clothing and all we need to buy? If those items are not available Made in the USA write the manufacturer and tell them you will buy them when they will make them here. After all, what is good about having all these cheap and *doubtful quality Asian merchandise available when we do not even have the jobs to be able to afford those?

    *https://www.suite101.com/content/canadas-top-exports-imports-a25174
    *https://www.economywatch.com/world_economy/mexico/export-import.htm
    *lhttps://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2010/12/21/toyota-to-pay-32m-in-penalties-over.html?ana=yfcpc
    *https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/07/foxconn-suicide-factory-r_n_602870.html

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