Bringing The World Home To You

© 2024 WUNC North Carolina Public Radio
120 Friday Center Dr
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
919.445.9150 | 800.962.9862
91.5 Chapel Hill 88.9 Manteo 90.9 Rocky Mount 91.1 Welcome 91.9 Fayetteville 90.5 Buxton 94.1 Lumberton 99.9 Southern Pines 89.9 Chadbourn
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

NC Jobless Rate Drops in November

The unemployment rate in North Carolina now sits at 10-percent.   It’s almost a half point lower than the month before but still a lot higher than the national rate.

Leoneda Inge:  The number of people employed in North Carolina jumped by close to 13-thousand residents.   But 16-thousand people lost work.  The movement results in a drop in the jobless rate – from 10-point-four to 10-percent.  But it’s still high.   The national jobless rate is 8-point-6-percent.   In the past year, most of the job growth in North Carolina has come in trade, transportation and utilities – gaining more than 12-thousand jobs.  During the same period – government lost 11-thousand jobs.  Most of those losses were in education.  451-thousand people are listed as unemployed in the state.

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Related Stories
More Stories