South Carolina’s unemployment rate set a record high in December rising to 12.6% from 12.3% in November, the S.C. Employment Security Commission reported today.
Lexington County’s unemployment rate remains the state’s lowest, at 8.7%, unchanged from November. Richland County has the fourth-lowest rate at 10%, also unchanged from November. Saluda County came in with the fifth-lowest rate at 10.2%, the commission reported.
Allendale County has the state’s highest unemployment rate, at 23.6% in December, up from 22.6% the previous month. Five other counties also reported unemployment rates of 20% or higher…
You know, as far as I’m concerned, the governor should stay out of state on a permanent ecodevo trip until we’ve whittled this number down a bit.
By the way, I live in Lexington County, and it is actually no comfort at all to me, as an unemployed guy, that the county’s rate is “only” 8.7 percent. In fact, I feel just as unemployed as if I lived in my native county of Marlboro, where the rate is 21 percent. Funny how personal perspective works, isn’t it?
Good thing that stimulus program is working so well.
And for those who think the economy would be worse without it, prove it. And pretend that taxes won’t have to be raised significantly to cover all the deficit spending.
But we’ve fallen back to fourth place. I thought sure SC Governot Mark Sanford would push us in front of #1 Michigan.
Besides governing and providing leadership for the state, I think a governor should be recruiting companies to the state.
Instead, SC Gov’not Sanford has done nothing, other than issuing press releases or theatrical stunts intended to embarrass the General Assembly.
Don’t blame me. I voted for Oscar Lovelace in the primary. Unfortunately, Sanford’s first Democratic opponent showed his true colors by going to work for the payday loan industry.