Hawaii & Alaska's workforce continues to grow or?

[urbanguy]

Here's a little look at Alaska:

Seasonally Adjusted

Labor Force Jan. 2004: 342,716 *record

Employed: 317,725 *record

Unemployed: 24,991 (7.3% down from 8.1% in Dec)

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Labor Force Jan. 2004: 338,115

Employed: 307,876

Unemployed: 30,239 (8.9% up from 8.0% in Dec)

*Okay what the heck just happen up there can someone explain to me the difference between "Seasonally Adjusted and Non" cause they look whacked!

Hawaii:

Seasonally Adjusted

Labor Force Jan. 2004: 627,883 *record

Employed: 603,189 *record

Unemployed: 24,694 (3.9% down from 4.4% in Dec)

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Labor Force Jan. 2004: 628,123

Employed: 604,395

Unemployed: 23,728 (3.8% up from 4.3% in Dec)

I'll post metro numbers for Jan when they are released!

What do you think? Do you understand this stuff?

[M II A II R II K]

Those percentages for Alaska seem pretty high, I thought that was a place to go for to get jobs

[Wendell FOX]

Urbanguy - you just HAD to post that pic of the acrobats (or whatever you call them) here.

I'd imagine that much of the unemployment is in some of the cut off small Inuit towns in the state - in fact now that I think about it, I have no idea how well off those remote places are.

[urbanguy]

^Hehe you like the pic, eh? BTW Anchorage's unemployment rate is much better than the rest of the state things are still happening there but the rest looks pretty bad.

[urbanguy]

Alrighty here are some updates this info is for the month of January!

Honolulu:

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Labor Force Jan. 2004: 442,684 *record (up from 431,529 in Dec)

Employed: 427,313 *record

Unemployed: 15,371 (3.5% same as in Dec)

Anchorage:

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Labor Force Jan. 2004: 154,154 (down from 159,948 in Dec) *could be due to students going back to school or something?

Employed: 144,953

Unemployed: 9,201 (6.0% up from 5.2% in Dec)

[urbanguy]

Updates for Hawaii & Alaska!

Alaska

Seasonally adjusted!

Labor Force May 2004: 344,547

Employed: 319,415

Unemployed: 25,132 or 7.3%

Hawaii

Seasonally adjusted!

Labor Force May 2004: 629,815

Employed: 610,774

Unemployed: 19,041 or 3.0%

[urbanguy]

June 2004 Updates

Alaska:

Seasonally adjusted!

Labor Force June 2004: 344,076

Employed: 318,927

Unemployed: 25,149 or 7.3%

Hawaii:

Seasonally adjusted!

Labor Force June 2004: 629,442

Employed: 610,105

Unemployed: 19,337 or 3.1%

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Anchorage:

Not Seasonally adjusted!

Labor Force June 2004: 154,295

Employed: 146,704

Unemployed: 7,591 or 4.9%

Honolulu:

Not Seasonally adjusted!

Labor Force June 2004: 445,690

Employed: 432,295

Unemployed: 13,395 or 3.0%