2nd highest unemployment in the Country!

locoinclx

http://www.ivdaily.com/2006/10/03/el-centro-jobless-rate-second-worst-in-america/

Not too shabby, Imperial Valley... Not to shabby...

That said, well what can you do about this??? Anyone??? Should we just send everyone to plow the fields? or should we blame the School District for not hiring more teachers? What do you guys think?

elchrist · Posted: 12 Oct 2006 01:37 PM Post subject:

We're #2!

Yuma, AZ is actually worst in the country when it comes to unemployment rates.

I believe the field worker situation is what causes the jobless rates in Imperial and Yuma county to be so high. With these jobs being seasonal, the workers end up applying for UI once the farming is done. This must be a huge spike in people w/o jobby-jobs.

Then let's consider that many of the field workers don't even live in the valley and use fake/stolen SS#'s to get employed. I couldn't even guess at what percentage of workers that would be.

locoinclx · Posted: 13 Oct 2006 03:41 PM Post subject:

elchrist · Posted: 13 Oct 2006 03:46 PM Post subject:

superplayer · Posted: 15 Oct 2006 12:40 PM Post subject:

The situation these days is much better than it was 10 years ago. I remember in my old days after high school back in the late 1990s it was impossible to find a job at a store/restaurant. Now all kinds of jobs (min. wage) are popping around everywhere. Too bad It's too late and I don't need that anymore.

locoinclx · Posted: 17 Oct 2006 04:05 PM Post subject:

heck back in 2000 i had come back to the valley for the summer and i wanted well a "summer job".... i realized too quickly that, that was'nt going to work out... at all... hope its a lot better now...