bureau of labor statistics

Unemployment in Morristown hit a 10-year high at 13%, the highest rate since Jan. 1998, and other metropolitan and county communities likewise saw the summer bring on high rates, according to a report in the Kingsport Times-News:

The cost of everything hasbeen rising unmercifully, and for many things we’ve made personal cuts. Trying not to use the car for un-necessary trips to the store, cut back on how much food we buy, even though food companies have increased the price while making the packages smaller.

People are making adjustments in order to stretch their dollars, but will that be enough?

Oklahoma is proving wrong the conventional wisdom on illegal immigration.

Brian Arner points to an economist who clearly has sufficient time on his hands:

An interesting snap-shot of local income picture.

If your paycheck shows you’ve had a raise but you just feel like you’re running in place, you’re probably right.

That’s according to a new Knoxville-area “statistical snapshot” that draws on population, economic and health care data from a wide variety of government and agency