WHENCE ARIZONA'S ECONOMY?
posted by Michael Chihak
Both state and federal unemployment numbers come out this week -- state numbers for January on Thursday and federal numbers for February on Friday.
The national trend has been steady improvement, while Arizona's improving trend took a break in December, when the jobless figure stayed flat with November at 8.7 percent.
For Friday's Arizona Week program, we will look closely at the state numbers. On the program will be:
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Aruna Murthy the state economist who oversees assembly of the report and will reveal the results at a Thursday news conference. Following it, we will interview her.
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Jim Rounds, senior vice president and economist with Elliott D. Pollack and Co. of Scottsdale. He does economic analysis work for the new Arizona Commerce Authority and has advised it on the direction it should take in trying to grow quality jobs in Arizona.
Watch for their interviews and journalistic expert analysis Friday online and at 8:30 p.m. MST on PBS-HD6.
