Unemployment in Memphis

    In July 2012, the unemployment rate for Memphis was 9.6 percent, which was roughly 60.8 thousand.  Almost seventy thousand people unemployed and that is just Memphis, Tennessee, while the United States unemployment is 8.3 percent. In fact, the only state that has less than a 3.9 percent unemployment in July was North Dakota and the highest is Nevada with 12.0 to 13.9 percent.  Although, Tennessee is a bit lower on the scale with 8.0 to 9.9 percent, it is still bad and means that many people are jobless.  In Memphis, if you take out the stay-at-home moms and the students living off parents and scholarships, you are still left a good chunk of people who cannot find a place of work and albeit some are not looking or do not care, it is still a big issue for those like me who are trying to get jobs for work experience so others will hire us. But as I have seen many times in this city, businesses want to hire people with experience already which puts a damper on my job search and also creates an endless whirlpool of  "I can't get a job because a I have no work experience because I can't get a job..."  Luckily, I have found a few places that have pulled me from this whirlpool of madness.  With a little more lax business hiring, maybe more people can get jobs and lower our unemployment rate, but it is up to the businesses to change all of this.  In Las Vegas, Nevada; the unemployment rate was 12.9 percent in July, even though Las Vegas would seem to be full of jobs open to everyone who has passed intermediate school.  Maybe it is illegal aliens stealing our jobs, maybe it is because many do not care to look for jobs, maybe just maybe there is fault on all fronts: the government passing laws weighing down business mobility, illegals taking over job markets for lower paychecks that eventually goes back to where they come from, and the citizens who need jobs that are not looking or are not creating their own opportunities.  The solution to resolving the unemployment issue in Memphis falls on all it's residents.