The New Hampshire Department of Employment Security (NHDES) released the April job numbers yesterday. New Hampshire’s unemployment rate is being reported as 3.8%. (746,530 people in the NH labor force, 717,870 are employed, 28,660 listed as unemployed.)
That sounds pretty good, but in July of 2008 there were 756,570 people in the NH labor force and 729,310 were employed.
The population has increased, not decreased, and yet somewhere we misplaced 11,440 jobs along with some 10,040 people who have left our labor force.
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Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, an award-winning blogger, and a member of the Board of Directors of The 603 Alliance and the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor, Executive Editor, assistant editor, Editor, content curator, and more (yes, there's more) at GraniteGrok.com. Steve is also a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, the Republican Volunteer Coalition, and has worked for or with many state and local campaigns and grassroots groups, and is a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.
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