Thursday, November 15, 2012
The Cartersville-Bartow Chamber of Commerce and Cartersville Downtown Development Authority team up to encourage residents to shop local.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Two local organizations are encouraging community members to save the date for downtown Cartersville's first Hometown Christmas event. Cartersville Downtown Development Authority and Cartersville-Bartow County Chamber of Commerce teamed to spearhead the Saturday, Dec. 8, event scheduled for 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Meant to encourage community residents to shop locally, both organizations are working to schedule a variety of entertainment throughout the downtown district including dance demonstrations, photo opportunities with Santa, choral performances and more. "With the Chamber’s commitment to encourage people to 'Buy Bartow,' we felt this was a great opportunity for the two organizations to partner together to promote the importance of …
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Unemployment in the county increased to 9.9 percent in January from a revised 9.7 percent in December.
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Bartow County’s unemployment rate rose to 9.9 percent in January but was still down almost 2 percentage points from a year earlier, the Georgia Department of Labor reported today. And even the increase in January left the jobless rate lower than the preliminary rate from December. The Labor Department originally reported the December rate at 10.5 percent but revised that figure down to 9.7 percent. Along with the usual refinements that can move the jobless rate by a couple of tenths of a point, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the state department just conducted an annual benchmarking to improve the job data’s accuracy. That effort contributed to the big revisions. Because the local job numbers are not adjusted for seasonal factors…
Friday, January 27, 2012
The county's 10.5 percent unemployment in December was higher than November but sharply lower than a year earlier.
Bartow County ended 2011 with a rosier jobs picture despite a rise in the county’s unemployment rate in December. Almost 40 more Bartow residents were working at the end of December than in November, and almost 900 more had jobs than were employed a year earlier, according to preliminary figures the state Department of Labor reported Thursday. A total of 40,831 people in the county ended 2011 employed, while 4,812 people 16 and older were seeking jobs. Bartow’s unemployment rate increased to 10.5 percent from 10.3 percent in November only because the workforce grew. But the more important comparison is to a year ago, and the county’s rate fell more than a point from the final rate of 11.7 percent in December 2010. The local figures are not…
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Are you out of work, or do you know somebody who is? Learn from a Georgia Department of Labor panel of experts how to move forward.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Join the Georgia Department of Labor's live chat on "Surviving a Layoff" in the CoverItLive blog above as people in Cartersville deal with 10.3 percent unemployment in Bartow County. The chat comes about 12 hours before the Labor Department announces the December unemployment figures for cities and counties and 24 hours before Chattahoochee Tech holds a panel discussion on training Georgia’s workforce of the future. Come back to Cartersville Patch at 11:30 a.m. Thursday for that live chat. After either chat, you can replay previous chat sessions on the department’s website. Previous sessions covered:
steve
9:07 am on Friday, November 16, 2012
Nice activitys i hope no one gets mugged are attacked by local criminals. more ›