By The Associated Press
Published: March 10,2011
RALEIGH — North Carolina is seeing some welcome signs of job growth but not enough to keep the state’s unemployment rate from creeping upward. The Employment Security Commission reported today that the state’s unemployment rate in January was 9.9 percent, up slightly from 9.8 percent in December. That’s higher than the national jobless rate, which [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: February 1,2011
The unemployment rate fell in the Charlotte area and Mecklenburg County from November to December, the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina said today. But the rates for Charlotte and the county still remained above the state’s December rate of 9.7 percent. In the Charlotte area, the rate fell from 11 percent to 10.7 percent. [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: February 1,2011
Charlotte will be the host city for the 2012 Democratic National Convention, the Democratic National Committee said today, ending months of speculation in the Queen City. The city beat out St. Louis, Minneapolis and Cleveland for the 46th DMC, an event expected to bring at least a $150 million boost to Charlotte’s economy. “I think we can safely [...]
By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: January 24,2011
North Carolina gained 2,300 nonfarm jobs in December, but its unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent from 9.7 percent in November, the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina said today. According to the seasonally adjusted data, the gain in jobs is the first since August. The number of people employed in December was 4.03 million, [...]
By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: January 14,2011
From October to November, a record-high 3,500 jobs were shed in Charlotte’s leisure and hospitality industry, according to the latest unemployment data from the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina. It’s the most jobs lost in a single month in that sector in Mecklenburg County since 1990, when the ESC started tracking the data, said [...]
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