PITTSBURG POST-GAZTTE: …Throughout the Great Recession, the state’s unemployment rate sat comfortably below the national rate. When the country’s overall rate hit its high point of 10 percent in October 2009, Pennsylvania was experiencing unemployment of 8.4 percent.
In September, those two lines of the graph crossed…
Pennsylvania’s September rate was a one-tenth of a percentage point increase over August’s 8.1 percent. The increase was caused mostly because of a large jump in the state’s labor force, which added 29,000 people… (more)
