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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Unemployment continues its rise in April]]></title><link>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/26/unemployment-continues-its-rise-in-april/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/26/unemployment-continues-its-rise-in-april/</guid><comments>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/26/unemployment-continues-its-rise-in-april/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/forecasts/" rel="tag">Forecasts</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/bad-news/" rel="tag">Bad News</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/consumer-experience/" rel="tag">Consumer Experience</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/employees/" rel="tag">Employees</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/marketmatters/" rel="tag">Market Matters</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/mandftoday/" rel="tag">Money and Finance Today</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/economic-data/" rel="tag">Economic Data</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/housing/" rel="tag">Housing</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/recession/" rel="tag">Recession</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/category/financial-crisis/" rel="tag">Financial Crisis</a></p><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.bloggingstocks.com/media/2008/12/not_hiring_sign.jpg" alt="Jobless claims" />The employment data is in for April, and it is not a pretty picture, as all but 6 states in the country saw <a href="http://money.aol.com/article/job-losses-up-in-44-states-as-recession/495463">increases in the number of jobless claims</a>.<br /><br />We all hope that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is right, and the economy is going to start to turn around in the latter part of this year, but even the most optimistic forecasters agree that unemployment is going to continue to rise, possibly above 10% before the worst is over.<p><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/26/unemployment-continues-its-rise-in-april/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Unemployment continues its rise in April</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/26/unemployment-continues-its-rise-in-april/">Unemployment continues its rise in April</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com">BloggingStocks</a> on Tue, 26 May 2009 17:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/26/unemployment-continues-its-rise-in-april/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/forward/19034770/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/26/unemployment-continues-its-rise-in-april/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>auto industry</category><category>AutoIndustry</category><category>Ben Nernanke</category><category>BenNernanke</category><category>economic slowdown</category><category>EconomicSlowdown</category><category>federal resever</category><category>FederalResever</category><category>forecasts</category><category>foreclusre</category><category>housing</category><category>jobless</category><category>jobless claims</category><category>JoblessClaims</category><category>jobs</category><category>Michigan</category><category>recession</category><category>unemployment</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Fowlkes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 17:00:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
