I used to work in a factory several years ago, but I don't miss it now. Do you work in a factory?
A little over a decade ago I worked in a factory producing electric motors. Where I am from we call them "plants"
Yes, that's another word for them around here too. Guess it depends on who's talking about them. 
Our area has many different factories. Nuclear, chemical, and paper in a 50 mile radius. Those are just a few of the larger ones.
It seems you live in a large city....We don't have any of that time, but many manufacturing plants.
It is considered a "tri-city" over a "tri-state" area. The chemical factory actually has its own rail system because of the expanse and area of coverage.
Wow, that's pretty massive area. I'm sure it keeps the employment rate lower in that area then.
Unemployment
Unemployment, or joblessness, is a situation in which able-bodied people who are looking for a job cannot find a job.
The causes of unemployment are heavily debated. Classical economics, new classical economics, and the Austrian School of economics argued that market mechanisms are reliable means of resolving unemployment. These theories argue against interventions imposed on the labor market from the outside, such as unionization, bureaucratic work rules, minimum wage laws, taxes, and other regulations that they claim discourage the hiring of workers
now and then somebody might get a little offended. It's got bad language in it, so I just don't do it in my shows. Anybody wants to hear it can hear it on iTunes. But you know people are listenin' to it, likin' it. Every now and then somebody don't like it, but that's okay. Similar to years ago, when the hippie thing come out and I started growin' my hair and puttin' the earring in, I got a little flak here