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A Brookings Institute study released this morning surveyed the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the country.
Columbia's 15.3 percent unemployment rate ranked 97th and Greenville-Maudlin-Easley ranked 95th with a 15.4 percent unemployment rate.
Columbia, Greenville unemployment among worst in US large cities - Breaking News - The State (http://www.thestate.com/breaking/story/873395.html - broken link)
I know these are probably smaller places and actually were listed as counties, but aren't there counties in SC that are actually in the low to mid 20 percentile and have been for months? Lancaster? Think that was one. And one towards the coast more.
A Brookings Institute study released this morning surveyed the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the country.
Columbia's 15.3 percent unemployment rate ranked 97th and Greenville-Maudlin-Easley ranked 95th with a 15.4 percent unemployment rate.
Columbia, Greenville unemployment among worst in US large cities - Breaking News - The State (http://www.thestate.com/breaking/story/873395.html - broken link)
I still love this state I chose as my second home. All except the governator who puts the doof in doofus
I bet students graduating from High School and College last month helped put the figure up that high - unbelievable. I know recent graduates are having a heck of a time finding work.
I bet students graduating from High School and College last month helped put the figure up that high - unbelievable. I know recent graduates are having a heck of a time finding work.
Yes, but so are people who have been working for the last 30 years.
The main problem with SC is that it doesn't have a cardinal industry outside of tourism that creates jobs (the state has only one fortune 500 company). Tourism is down so the states economy is down. The state doesn't value education. This in turn doesn't create a place for "brainiacs" to work once they have graduated. That's why SC best and brightest always leave the state for Atlanta, or Charlotte. It's the same cycle thats been going on since my parents graduated college in the early 70s, back then though they mainly went to DC, or New York. It's pretty embarassing to be lodged between NC, & GA and still have an unemployment rate that only slightly lags behind Michigan. It doesn't matter where you go there isn't an industry that creates a market for substantially high paying middle income jobs. In SC tourism is king. Service jobs that pay like $7.50 and hour seem to dominate the landscape. I recently took a trip to the Bahammas, and St. Martin/Marteen (colonial poverty whos economy was heavily based on tourism) and saw what SC would probablly looked like if it didn't have any tax base. You think you know what poverty is until you visit places like this. It's a real eye opener.
Last edited by sandlapper; 07-22-2009 at 10:32 PM..
The main problem is that the article is not even in the newspaper this morning because it was false journalism. If the two cities' unemployment rates are really that high, it's the cities' only and not the MSA's. Who talks about cities only when talking about unemployment, unless the article is specifically about municipalities? And in that case, think about the District of Columbia's unemployment rate compared with the Washington MSA's. I think the journalist saw her mistake and took it off the website and pulled it from today's printed edition.
I implore someone to find the Brookings article and post it on here. I looked absolutely everywhere yesterday and last night and couldn't find it. To check out Columbia and Greenville's unemployment rates (MSA's), visit the SC Employment security commission's website.
Check out the link to the article now. They killed it because they knew it was wrong.
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YAY. 
