Unemployment Numbers Another Indictment of “Jobs” Governor

Raleigh, N.C. — Unemployment numbers released by the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina today put the unemployment rate at 11.2 percent in the month of December, the highest rate in the current recession. According to seasonally adjusted numbers, 31,338 more workers lost their jobs in December. Overall, since January of last year, 191,258 more people have lost their jobs in North Carolina. (“N.C. unemployment rate up in Dec.,” Greensboro News & Record, 1/22/10)

Last year, Governor Perdue and legislative Democrats raised taxes by $990 million despite Republican objections that raising taxes in the middle of a recession would paralyze job creation. North Carolina now has the eighth-highest unemployment rate in the nation.

Senate Republican Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) made the following statement:

“We do not need any more proof that the policies of Governor Perdue’s jobless administration and her Democratic allies in the General Assembly are leading North Carolina in the wrong direction. Higher taxes and greater burdens on families and businesses are killing opportunity and job creation for our state. We must immediately change direction, provide relief to taxpayers, and leave room for small businesses and entrepreneurs to create the jobs our people desperately need.”

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