Where Did 11,440 NH Workers Go? - Granite Grok

Where Did 11,440 NH Workers Go?

Unemployment went down but the line isn't getting shorterThe 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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