Statistics show that Asheville's 'jobless' rate has jumped down from 8.4 to 7.9, a full half a percentage. The significance of this is obvious, Buncombe County has been hiring. This can mostly be accredited to new Teaching jobs as well as manufacturing job openings. Asheville is hoping that this can be a sign of a turning economy.
This is inclusive of the whole Asheville district, that is made up by Buncombe, Haywood, Madison and Henderson counties. They recently ranked (in North Carolina state’s) second-lowest unemployment rate which was 8.1 percent, trailing only back from the Durham-Chapel and Hill metropolitan area at 7.7 percent. North Carolina at a whole is at a 10% unemployment rite.
This unemployment rate has been decreasing in 92 of the one hundred counties in North Carolina, proving that jobs are opening up. Asheville nc gained 500 manufacturing jobs this month. With the addition of Tourism, seven hundred new tourism related jobs have been made in the past year. However, this is only complimenting the huge government job cuts that have been happening. Government jobs and education positions have been cut, laying off over a thousand people.
Hopefully this is one of the few signs that the government is actually trying to provide help to those who are unemployed or have recently been laid off.
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