Illinois Unemployment Rate At 15-Year-High, Tops National Average

Illinois companies cut their payrolls for a seventh straight month and state unemployment jumped to 15-year high in December, government figures show.

Employers in the state cut 36,000 jobs last month, according to figures released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Illinois Department of Employment Security. In the last two months of 2008, Illinois lost a total of 73,600 jobs. That's the largest two-month decline since 1990, reflecting the devastating impact of the economic slowdown.

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Comments

[plymkr]

The rest of the nation is at an all time high as well......­.Illinois is no better or worse off than most states.

[shirleyfeeney]

It's about the same in California. The statewide average is 9.3%, yet here in Los Angeles it's 9.9%.

How nice.

[kstuff]

We've stopped counting in Michigan.