Tweet August unemployment figures (released a couple weeks ago) show a continued seasonal decline in the unemployment rate. Lexington dropped from 8.3% to 8.2% and the region from 9.3% to 9.0%. See picture below: Probably the most interesting parts of the above chart are the July spikes in unemployment returning to normal. Still not entirely …
Tag Archive: Bluegrass Alliance
Oct
07
Sep
14
July Unemployment
Tweet Time for the monthly unemployment update. Good news in July as Lexington saw their unemployment drop from 8.5% to 8.2%. Our larger Bluegrass Alliance area saw its unemployment drop from an adjusted 9.3% to 9.2%. Unfortunately this is a bad combination for our surrounding counties. When Fayette County’s unemployment drops significantly and the larger …
Aug
18
June Unemployment
Tweet June’s unemployment numbers were released last week to the tune of 8.5% in Fayette County and 9.2% in our Bluegrass Alliance region. This compares with 7.7% and 8.6% in May respectively. The trends for all of the areas we monitor are below. You can see that Fayette County is basically following local, state, and …
Jun
05
April unemployment – a small breath of fresh air
Tweet Here is how the unemployment numbers look after the most recent release of April. I took out the “Lexington MSA” line and replaced it with a more representative “Bluegrass Alliance” line. The Bluegrass Alliance includes all the Lexington MSA counties (Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Jessamine, Scott, and Woodford) and adds both Franklin and Madison counties. …
Jun
02
April 2009 Unemployment Numbers
Tweet Just a quick post to let you know that April’s Unemployment figures were released today. Lexington-Fayette County is still the lowest in the state (tied with Woodford County) at 6.9%. This is down .5% from February and March’s levels of 7.4%. Our eight-county Bluegrass Alliance is at 7.8%, down from 8.4% in March. April …