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Alabama's unemployment rises to 11.1 percent
by The Associated Press
Mar 10, 2010 | 1164 views | 9 9 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend | print
MONTGOMERY — Alabama's unemployment has risen to 11.1 percent, the highest figure in 26 years.

The state Department of Industrial Relations announced the January rate Wednesday. It is up from December's revised rate of 10.9 percent.

The last time Alabama recorded 11.1 percent unemployment was January 1984.

Industrial Relations Director Tom Surtees said Alabama saw a decline of 30,800 jobs in January, and the unemployed rate represents more than 228,000 people.

The counties with the lowest unemployment are Madison at 8.7 percent, Shelby at 8.8 percent, and Coffee at 9.0 percent. The counties with the highest unemployment are Wilcox at 27.4 percent, Monroe at 22.4 percent, and Conecuh at 21.8 percent.
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comments (9)
« tugboat2@inbox.com wrote on Wednesday, Mar 10 at 07:55 PM »
Amen basal, he evidently doesn't have one. That shows how folks can be hoodwinked into believing anything. That is how the Antichrist will win people over. But of course DD will call that a fairy tale.
« tugboat2@inbox.com wrote on Wednesday, Mar 10 at 04:09 PM »
DD, i looked it up and the site said his involvement was being an officer of a company that the owner had dealings with someone who gave money to support Hitler. It was said that Prescott was not a supporter of Hitler. His boss was until he had a falling out with the other man.

Order up

« pagetigerstorm@aol.com wrote on Wednesday, Mar 10 at 04:07 PM »
George Bush has the same economic policy that Sara Palin had for foreign policy. George could see the Federal Reserve Bank from the White House. Also Iraq didnt fly planes into the WTC, so tell us again why did we invade them at a great cost of lives and money???? Didnt Bush/Cheney say Iraq oil would pay for the war??? Sort of like Mike Rogers saying "no more federal money for the bypass." did he repeat that at the shovel turning he attended?????
« tvman58@att.net wrote on Wednesday, Mar 10 at 03:55 PM »
Tug boat, I can see that you only addressed the second part of my comment as the first part was too hot for you to comment on. Church folks like ole George because he said he was saved under Billy Graham(too many suckers in this country). Ole George Walker like his daddy belong to a Jesus loving organization called "Skull and Bones". Perhaps you should look that up sometime. Prescott Bush helped finance Hitler. Didn't you ever wonder where all of that money came from??? Stop being guilty of Hosea 4 verse 6. It shows..............
« tugboat2@inbox.com wrote on Wednesday, Mar 10 at 03:17 PM »
DD, so now the History Channel is a channel of fairy tales. ROFLMBO
« tvman58@att.net wrote on Wednesday, Mar 10 at 02:53 PM »
Floyd , You are right as ole George said on tv that Jesus told him to launch that war and kill all of them evil Islam people.(this is one of the things that proved that religion is as phony as that war was). People will believe any thing other than the truth as that makes them way too uncomfortable. George Bush's daddy George Herbert Walker Bush whose daddy was Prescott Bush was a partner with Brown Bothers Harriman who helped finance the Nazi war machine(HITLER).

Tugboat, where do you learn your history , on the history channel??? I don't think you are going to see the real truth there no more than learning real biblical history in church. Instead of order up I will say WAKE UP
« tugboat2@inbox.com wrote on Wednesday, Mar 10 at 01:57 PM »
FloydtheBarberr wrote on Wednesday, Mar 10 at 01:27 PM »

Thanks to Bush and his phony war that was kept off budget, we no longer have the surplus that President Clinton left office with.

Phony war? i guess the flying of planes into the trade Centers and the Pentagon was phony and did't really happen. If it were up to all the liberal yellow bellies we would have just done nothing. You have the freedom to criticize and protest because men and women fought to give you this freedom that many like you take for granted.

order up

« tugboat2@inbox.com wrote on Wednesday, Mar 10 at 12:33 PM »
If you will check it is Obama that borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. Not enough money ? He will have some printed up.
« pagetigerstorm@aol.com wrote on Wednesday, Mar 10 at 11:53 AM »
Its going to take alittle time to recover from 8 years of Bush! Where were all the balance budget Republicans 8 years ago! Nothing has changed they are still borrow and spend Republicans!
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