His successor, Secretary Goldberg, also has been guessing wrong on a drop in the unemployment rate which has been holding just under 7 per cent for the last 11 months.

Mitchell decried the high rate of unemployment in the state and said the Meyner administration and the Republican-controlled State Senate `` Must share the blame for this ''.

Armenia's unemployment rate, however, remains high, despite strong economic growth.

Despite progress since the Soviet era, the unemployment rate still hovers near 30 % and there remains a huge gulf between actual and potential Gross Domestic Product.

The finding sharply contrasts with government's official unemployment rate of about 10 percent.

A 2003 household survey conducted by the National Statistical Survey found that the real unemployment rate is about 33 percent.

, Aarau had an unemployment rate of 2. 35 %.

A sizable current account deficit and high unemployment rate remain the two most serious economic problems.

* At Corby, the closure of the former Stewarts & Lloyds site in the early 1980s saw the loss of 11, 000 jobs, leading to an initial unemployment rate of over 30 %.

, Basel had an unemployment rate of 4. 2 %.

As of September 2011, Canada's national unemployment rate stood at 7. 1 %, as the economy continues its recovery from the effects of the 2007-2010 global financial crisis.

Most of these institutes focus on a form of economics called macroeconomics which keeps its eyes on things such as inflation: the rate at which money loses its value over time ; growth: how much money a government has and how quickly it accrues money ; unemployment, and rates of trade between other countries.

The country achieved notable economic growth during these years, while the unemployment rate would continue to rise until 2001 when it finally started falling.

In October 2011, unemployment rate was 17. 4 %.

Persistent economic problems still remain and include a rather high unemployment rate ( 9. 6 % in 2007 ),

The rate of unemployment rarely rose above 2 % during Attlee ’ s time in office, whilst there was no hard-core of long-term unemployed.

Since then, consistent liberalization and astute economic management has led to the removal of 95 % of all price controls, low unemployment, a positive balance of payments position, a stable exchange rate, a shift of exports from former communist economic bloc markets to Western Europe, and relatively low foreign debt.

Education of girls still lags behind boys and, because of the high unemployment rate, employment opportunities are better for male applicants.

Davenport has a declining crime rate and a low rate of unemployment, and was ranked as the most affordable metropolitan area in 2010 by Forbes.

Due to the introduction of new technologies, many workers have been made redundant in the recent years, creating a total unemployment rate of about 10 %.

Such aggregates include national income and output, the unemployment rate, and price inflation and subaggregates like total consumption and investment spending and their components.

The monthly unemployment rate remained at about 6 and 8 percent from December 2007 until September 2008, however, it went up to about 9 percent in October and dropped again in November 2008 to 8 percent.

Okun's law representing the relationship between GDP growth and the unemployment rate.

For example, consider Okun's law, which relates GDP growth to the unemployment rate.

Production fell and unemployment rose.

The government maintained most of the wartime controls over the economy, including control over the allocation of materials and manpower, and unemployment rarely rose above 500, 000, or 3 % of the total workforce.

The Nazis rose to power while unemployment was very high, but achieved full employment later thanks to massive rearmament.

Following privatization and tax reductions on Hungarian businesses, unemployment suddenly rose to 12 % in 1991 ( it was 1. 7 % in 1990 ), gradually decreasing until 2001.

Real wages, adjusted for inflation, rose 25 per cent, and unemployment temporarily vanished.

He brought down a mini-budget in an attempt to slow consumption, control inflation and reduce the deficit, but it triggered the worst credit squeeze since 1945 — the economy was driven into recession, the stock market slumped, private investment, housing activity and motor vehicle sales fell, unemployment rose to almost 2 percent ( the highest rate since the Depression ) and several major companies collapsed.

John Major wrote in his auto-biography that, " During my premiership interest rates fell from 14 % to 6 %; unemployment was at 1. 75 million when I took office, and at 1. 6 million and falling upon my departure ; and the government's annual borrowing rose from £ 0. 5 billion to nearly £ 46 billion at its peak before falling to £ 1 billion ".

By 2009 unemployment rose to 23 % and was the highest in the EU.

Under a broader definition ( including people that have given up searching for employment ) unemployment rose from 36. 7 % in 2004 to 51. 2 % in 2008.

The latter contributed to a relatively brief recession in 1982: unemployment rose to 9. 7 % and GDP fell by 1. 9 %.

The level of unemployment in 2009 rose to 12. 1 % after a period of decreasing unemployment.

Many companies announced mass dismissals and thus the unemployment rate rose from its low of 1. 9 % in June 2000 to its peak of 3. 9 % in October 2004, although well below the European Union ( EU ) unemployment average of 8. 9 %.

Low commodity prices and economic difficulties in Uruguay's main export markets, first in Brazil with the devaluation of the real then in Argentina in 2002, caused a severe recession — the economy contracted by 11 %, unemployment climbed to 21 % and the percentage of Uruguayans in poverty rose to over 30 %.

The unemployment rate rose, inflation surged, and the burden of external debt doubled.

During Putin's first premiership and presidency ( 1999 – 2008 ), real incomes increased by a factor of 2. 5, real wages more than tripled ; unemployment and poverty more than halved and the Russians ' self-assessed life satisfaction rose significantly.

The small fall the unemployment rate, however, was achieved at the cost of a larger budget deficit ( which rose from 31. 2 billion DM to 75. 7 billion DM in 1981 ), brought about by fiscal expansion ).

Between 1975-1984, the region lost over 130, 000 jobs and unemployment rose to 14 % of the working population, well above the national average.

The National Insurance Act of 1966, which introduced supplementary earnings-related benefits for short-term sickness and unemployment, had far-reaching distributional consequences by “ guaranteeing that insurance benefits rose at the same rate as wages in the late 1960s .” Trade unions were supportive of the advances made in social protection by the Wilson government, which had a considerable impact on the living standards of the lowest quintile of the population.

These hasty and harsh preparations caused great hardship for the residents of cities such as Shanghai, where the unemployment rate rose dramatically to 37. 5 %.

As a result, the program was suspended, unemployment rose, and the local economy soon degenerated to the level of other communities in the country.

The cost of food rose as people were forced to buy the more expensive and lower quality British grain, and periods of famine and chronic unemployment ensued, increasing the desire for political reform both in Lancashire and in the country at large.