NC unemployment rate drops due to labor force exodus, Greensboro News Record accurate report, November 22, 2013, 8 percent unemployment rate, Labor force participation rate plummets 2 percent this year “11.4%: What the U.S. unemployment rate would be if labor force participation were back to January 2008 levels.” …James Pethokoukis, American Enterprise Institute, June 2013 “In the Triad, a number of studies have ranked the area among the nation’s worst in terms of poverty and food hardship.” ““You have the people that were barely making it with 40 hours. Now, they’reRead More