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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Evil_Conservative on April 29, 2012, 02:10:51 PM
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.... According to a Scott Walker hater who knows how to share a picture on Facebook.
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/versawife/falseWIjobloss.jpg)
Looks like California is doing really well. :rofl:
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It's all the other states the barack's minister of truf keeps saying there are millions of fewer jobs available then in years past.
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Fewer U.S. states report job gains in March (http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/story/2012-04-20/state-unemployment-rankings/54432478/1)
By Christopher S. Rugaber, Associated Press Updated 4/20/2012 1:57 PM
WASHINGTON – Fewer U.S. states reported job gains last month, reflecting a slower pace of hiring nationwide.
The Labor Department says that 29 states reported job gains in March, while 20 states lost jobs. That's worse than February, when 42 states added jobs.
Still, the unemployment rate fell in most states: 30 states reported lower rates in March while 8 reported increases. Rates were unchanged in 12 states.
Nationwide, the unemployment rate fell to 8.2% in March from 8.3%. But employers added only 120,000 jobs, half the pace of the previous three months.
That dip in hiring, along with recent increases in the number of people seeking unemployment benefits, has raised some concerns that job gains could slow in coming months.
The biggest job declines were reported in Ohio, which lost 9,500 jobs, and New Jersey, which lost 8,600 positions. Wisconsin posted the third biggest loss, a decline of 4,500.
Some states reported healthy job gains: New York added 19,100 jobs, California gained 18,200 and Arizona said employers added 13,500 jobs.
Nevada has the nation's highest unemployment rate, at 12%. That's down from 12.3% in February. Rhode Island reported the next highest rate, at 11.1%, down from 11.2%. And California has the third-highest rate, at 11%, up from the previous month's 10.9%.
North Dakota's 3% unemployment rate is the lowest in the nation, the report said. That's down from 3.1% in the previous month. Nebraska has the second-lowest, at 4%, down from 4.1%. South Dakota has the third-lowest rate, at 4.3%, the same as the previous month.
The report comes after some disappointing economic data Thursday. The average number of people seeking unemployment benefits nationwide in the past month is at a three-month high. Home sales slowed last month after healthy gains over the winter. And manufacturing in the mid-Atlantic region declined in April, a separate report found.
Despite the negative reports, most economists expect modest growth to continue this year. The economy likely expanded at a 2.5% annual pace in the January-March quarter, down slightly from 3% growth in the fourth quarter.
The government will issue its first estimate of January-March growth next Friday.
Economists said temporary layoffs stemming from the spring holidays may have inflated the unemployment benefit figures. Some school employees are laid off during spring break and are eligible to file for benefits.
Many economists have also downplayed the weak March hiring figures, noting that a warmer winter may have also led to some earlier hiring in January and February. They have noted that the economy has added an average of 212,000 jobs per month in the January-March quarter, well ahead of last year's pace.
Most are waiting to see the April jobs report before concluding that hiring has stalled. That report will be released on May 4.
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Careful here.
Wasn't it just a couple of months back that Wisconsin alone accounted for most of the jobs created in the whole country that month?
I'm dubious here about that map.
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Over 17,000 of those jobs were Government jobs, and the majority of all job losses were in Milwaukee which has a Dem Mayor, also the unemployment rate for Wisconsin is 6.8%, a heck of a lot better then the overall US rate.
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Careful here.
Wasn't it just a couple of months back that Wisconsin alone accounted for most of the jobs created in the whole country that month?
I'm dubious here about that map.
No sir , That was Texas It was something like 45% of all jobs created in the past year were in Texas.
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No sir , That was Texas It was something like 45% of all jobs created in the past year were in Texas.
I knew that one, for the whole year.
But there was one specific month in Wisconsin.....
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I find the map hilarious because ONLY Wisconsin lost jobs. It was obviously colored in by an anti-Scott Walker group to make a point that Walker sucks, or whatever point they were trying to get across.
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Zeus, is that for an entire year? It sounds like it's only the first quarter of 2012. That map represents what is supposedly an entire year of job losses across the US.