Laconia jobless/unemployed

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According to a March 7, 2010 article in the Citizen, the rate of unemployed for all New Hampshire increased from 7.0% in December 2009, to 7.7% in January 2010.

What I have not been able to find is information for Laconia or Belknap County. Anyone know of a source?
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Here we go....I found a source...the New Hampshire Dept Employment Security.

FROM: THE N.H. DEPT of BAD NEWS!

9.4% Belknap jobless for January 2010

From the state's NH Employment Security website, here's some not very good numbers.

New Hampshire has ten different counties and Belknap County has increased it unemployment rate from 7.4% to 9.4% between December 2009, and January 2010. Belknap County at 9.4% jobless is a close second most unemployed, to Coos County's 9.8%, which is way up north and home to a number of closed paper mills.

Belknap County, January 2010, had a labor force of 31,840 with 3,000 unemployed, so that's a jobless rate of 9.4%. 3000 unemployed is a lot of local people...


Anyone have any individual Belknap County-Laconia personal horror stories to share here about their job hunting attempts or how being jobless has led you to personal break-ups, divorce, drinking, bankruptcy, homelessness, car repossession, eviction, foreclosure & deep depression? Come on....don't be bashfull....there's got to be plenty personal horror stories in Belknap County that never get told...

Am I the only one who has noticed the Belknap Sheriff Dept's light brown, Ford Crown Victoria police cruisers seem to be very busy lately?
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On Wednesday, March 10, an unidentified male shot himself dead, a suicide by handgun according to the newspaper, on the very scenic 1100' long Gilford town beach. It's probably pretty safe for me to assume that he was neither a healthcare or government employee with a salary-overtime-paid holiday-healthcare-sick leave plan-life insurance plan.

What was his story? Anybody know?