South Carolina county hits 23% unemployment

[babylonsister]

South Carolina county hits 23% unemployment

WIS
Published: March 16, 2009


New unemployment numbers show the jobless rate in South Carolina has jumped to 10.4 percent.

Allendale County came in last place with an unemployment rate of more than 23 percent.

Places like the former Mohawk Carpet plant in the Allendale County town of Ulmer have been sitting empty.

The shutdown wiped out 225 jobs.

It was a setback for Allendale County, but area leaders say it was a relatively rare setback, and certainly not enough to explain the county’s 23.4% unemployment rate.

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http://www.counton2.com/cbd/news/state_regional/article/south_carolina_county_hits_23_unemployment/22171/

[SpiralHawk]

1. The putrid fruit of republiconomics

Ptoooey on Republiconomic FAIL, and their radical borrow-and-spend debt mania.

[TahitiNut]

2. Governor Sanford will be sure to deny that county any stimulus funds, champion of the people he is.

:puke:

[Gin]

3. so what??? they don't need any stimulus...according to their Governor!

[izquierdista]

4. Pssst....

It's a mostly black county and I believe it's in Jim Clyburn's district. If you had any hopes about Sanford giving them stimulus funds, that should pretty much rule it out....

[greenkal]

5. As someone that lived in Walterboro...

not far from Allendale (the town, I don't know where the county line was), you can't go by those numbers. Most of the adults in that area simply did not want to work. It's not like even western South Carolina and most other places in the US where there is a culture of working. I knew quite a few guys that as far as they knew, no one in their entire family history had ever had a steady job. Outside of the cities like Charleston and Hilton Head most people in the low country of SC live very modestly and cheaply, which I admire. Looking at raw unemployment numbers for that area like you're doing is comparing apples to oranges. 23% there doesn't in any way compare to a 23% elsewhere.

[NorthernSpy]

6. "Most of the adults in that area simply did not want to work"

It's not even like Western South Carolina and most other places in the US where there is a culture of working.

:eyes:


Most of the adults in Allendale County DO work.



By the way, "greenkal": you're very, very transparent.

[Are_grits_groceries]

8. Well I know a LOT of people in that area.

I also have relatives there. Don't want to work my ass. They try to do as much as anybody. Yeah there are some who just go along, but most don't. Culture of working........Culture of some people spouting a lot of shit.
MEH!@!

[onethatcares]

9. what kind of jobs are available there greenkal?

that these people don't want to work at. are there manufacturing jobs? service sectors? or nothing but pickin cotton?

What do you like on your pizza?

[MzShellG]

10. I lived there for 10yrs.

My mother taught music at 1 of the schools there. I dont know where you got that assumption. The cost of living in Walterboro is way less than here in the capitol, but most people I knew there worked or they were students like I was at the time.

[TWiley]

7. Governor Dip-Shit-Sanford is grandstanding about Stimulus money as I type

What a fucking moron. Lets hold his feet to the fire, make him honor his words, and then let the S.C. voters tear him to shreads.