Up to 7.8 percent for January. (It had been 7.1 percent in December.)
About 303,570 people are estimated to be unemployed and looking for work in Washington — the largest number ever for this state.
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When is the Stranger staff going to join the crowd?
@1, sooner than any of them realize.
Thank You Obama!!
@3: YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT MAN HAS BEEN IN OFFICE FOR A WHOLE MONTH ALREADY AND HASN’T ENDED THE RECESSION?
The price of labor is so high in Washington State. It’s no surprise that our unemployment level is so high. Supply will never equal demand with such high labor costs.
Don’t worry, little brother.
There will be … more.
1-4 is the same person. It takes a special kind of loser to respond to their own posts.
@7: My comment (#4) is the first one I’ve left on this post.
Screw You @8.
@9: …Um, okay. I (@4) made a sarcastic response to the sentiment expressed @3. I’m sorry you didn’t get it 🙁
@10, I got it. Rotten666 must just have forgotten to take his funny vitamin this morning…
@1-11
Screw All of You!!
(except 7 and 9)
I got laid off last Thursday. No wonder it took me an hour to get a human on the phone at the unemployment line.