the unemployment rate of the United States Soars 3.2 million: as a crown Jobs Crisis Hurting One American City

A few weeks ago he was looking for things Gabrielle Gregory upwards. The Charlotte, North Carolina has to buy settle in life with her one year old baby and save a resident of the house. Their union had secured only a wage increase for them and their colleagues of food and beverage employees work at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport. In a few days, everything crumbled. As the nation awoke slowly to the reality of the crown, Gregory lost his job as a cook at HMS Host, released one of more than 800 people through the airport food service companies in Charlotte. His son’s day care center closed. Your partner, who also worked at the airport, she lost her job as well, so the family to eat at a savings. “They got us out of the blue,” he says. “We’re just trying to figure out where our next paycheck will come.” Mirrors situation of Gregory to the city where he lives. In recent years, ranking Charlotte has emerged as one of the most popular cities for new businesses and for the past ten years, the region boasted economic growth, which has exceeded the rest of the country. But the blow crown was sharp. Last week reached nearly 50,000 people for unemployment statewide and stories are not met by the locals for hours to talk to someone at the Division of job security North Carolina can provide a comprehensive forms of unemployment line and expecting to be on the ice. “The jobless claims system is overloaded,” says MaryBe McMillan, president of the North Carolina AFL-CIO. Charlotte seems a bit ‘as the country in general. The figures on March 26 announced by the Department of Labor show that about 3.3 million people across the country will be archived for unemployment benefits last week, far exceed about 665,000 at the height of the recession in March 2009 filed States that may tip of the iceberg. Unemployment in North Carolina was 150,000 in the coming weeks as the country stumbles into recession, according to Mike Walden, capacity economist at North Carolina State University. “It’s not as bad as the Great Recession,” he says. “But the uncertainty is greater.” It could very well be as bad or worse. Experts say that unemployment at the national level could be as high as 30% in the next few weeks to peak as economic activity declines dramatically across the country. In Charlotte begins suffering is largely centered on the hospitality industry, which employs 13% of the workforce North Carolina. Last week he ordered to close for the staff of the State Food restaurants and bars. Meanwhile, hotel reservations evaporated and flights to the local airport, a major hub for American Airlines, were canceled to give a big success on the tourism industry $7 billion dollars of the city. “This is the hardest week of my career have been,” says Lynn Minges, CEO of the North Carolina Restaurant & Lodging Association. “We have that has come upon us over the crown has long been known, but I do not think the tsunami than expected.” The challenges have led to a flood of innovative efforts resulting cash to keep it flowing. Restaurants crawled innovative offerings-take-out offer to demand social media and email blasts to customers for their support. A Dilworth Grill, just outside the center of Charlotte, a sign was in all caps say passers-by “local support” and published “order takeout.” The list of upcoming live music events on the Facebook page of music everywhere, in support of an initiative of the city the local music industry, has been replaced by a list of local live streams, accepting donations and contributions optionally. “A lot of people now in our backyard is innovative,” says Tariq Bokhari, member of the municipal council of Charlotte. Many in the city have some of the most important companies in the region to search for the basic support. A long list of Charlotte-based companies such as Lowe’s, Bank of America and Lending Tree donated $1 million a year for the needs of the people, to meet the wounded from the crown. Even some of the biggest companies in the difficult times of the facial region. Charlotte-based Honeywell, for example, told employees that they would be required to take unpaid leave under increasing financial challenges than two weeks. The company also reduced the salaries for executives. Almost two-thirds of executives surveyed by the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance, said about the Crown pandemic effects on sales were affected, saying more than 20%, their business could not last more than a month with no new sales. “The biggest food is to remove the uncertainty now, regardless of how big you are, how small you are, what you are in business,” Janet LaBar, CEO says the alliance. “We see companies are downsizing.” All this is of little comfort to local workers who are just trying to put food on the table. And while the rules of the state government for qualifying for unemployment, North Carolina is one of the least unionized states in the United States and was criticized for laws of protection of the working poor is loose. “What made this crisis is the true exposed holes in our safety net,” says McMillan. Gregory, as Charlotte entrepreneur says that one of the biggest challenges is the uncertainty. The food service workers say their company’s communication on layoffs were unclear and do not know if you might be able to return to their jobs when things come back. Whether in search of their employers or government officials, Gregory says that more information is required so that you can plan. “It has more things in place to be, in the future, as we would really attack this problem?”, She says. “At that time, I do not know if it is short or long term.”
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