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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Jobless rate continues to rise in Hancock, surrounding counties
By LOU WILIN

STAFF WRITER

January unemployment rates increased in Hancock County and most of its neighbors.

Hancock County's jobless rate increased to 10.5 percent in January from 10.1 percent in December, the state Job and Family Services Department reported.

The post-Christmas slowdown in retail drove the unemployment numbers up, said Hancock County Job & Family Services Director Judith Wauford.

Wauford said she is not alarmed by the unemployment report.

“I think the general trend is we are starting to come out of it,” she said.

It might not feel that way when the local jobless rate was higher than the national unemployment rate of 9.7 percent in January.

But Wauford said Hancock County and its neighbors went into the recession several months after the rest of the nation, and their recovery will lag several months behind, too.

Hancock County and its neighbors have a lot of secondary manufacturing suppliers to the auto and other industries, meaning they make parts for the primary industry suppliers.

Unemployment rates among neighboring counties in January, with December rates in parentheses, were: Allen, 12.2 percent (11.4); Hardin, 12.6 (12.6); Henry, 15.5 percent (13.7); Putnam, 12.8 (11.2); Seneca, 14 (13.4); Wood, 12 (11.1); Wyandot, 14.8 (14).

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Jimbo wrote:
It Could Get Better.
“ I am looking out the window of my home, when I should be out working to provide for my family. I did not choose this situation, but have very little control over it.

I am not a scholar, nor am I an economist...But I can make a suggestion to help bring the economy out of this.

First of all, we need to convince the business world that if more people had more money, they would sell more products. If I had the money to buy a new car, I would be replacing the one that I can not afford to repair. If I was to buy that new car, it would require the company tha built it to replace i on the marketplace. If they replace it, it makes more work for the companies that produce parts for it, If they have the parts, they need workers to assemble it. And each of these people would have money that they might spend on products that would create more jobs.

Then, we need to convince our government that we need to stop our American companies from going to countries with lower standarts of living to produce their products at a lower cost to them, at the cost of Americans being put out of the cycle of the economy.

Then, we need to look at ourselves and make sure that our government spends the tax money we give them, properly. We need to kep them accountible for every penny they spend.

It is only common sence that if more people are working, more income taxes will be collectted. Why is it that our government can not see that. This is the main principal to which our governments are turning a blind eye.

If the govenment were to create a Jobs Program for the people that would create more REAL income, then those people would be a stronger part of the economic cycle.

One of the best economies our country ever saw was when the government provided programs for the returning troops from WWI and WWII. It was because the government gave jobs to those that returned that allowed them to spend money to buy things that needed to be produced by peple that would spend money to buy things that needed to be produced. And that was what created a strong economy that most of us living today, grew up in.

In the words of Earl Pitts, "WAKE UP AMERICA!" ”
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