Monday, April 23, 2018

Your good news of the day: 14 states hit record-low unemployment

The states hitting new unemployment lows run the ideological gamut, from conservative Texas to liberal California, suggesting a recovery stronger than any particular political persuasion.

Amazing how that happens when people have more money in their pocket, and business isn't fearful of the heavy hand of government regulation.

Record low states include Hawaii (2.1 percent), Idaho (2.9), Kentucky (4.0), Maine (2.7), Mississippi (4.5), Oregon (4.1) and Wisconsin (2.9).

California also set a new record last month at 4.1 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). That’s the lowest rate recorded since BLS began keeping track of state-level unemployment figures in 1976.

Texas hit a 3.9-percent unemployment rate in November, after peaking at 8.3 percent during the height of the recession. Tennessee fell to the lowest unemployment rate it has ever measured, 3.3 percent, in January.

Gotta like those statistics.  Rising wages will be coming right up.

2 comments:

  1. and even more good news....FLASH!
    perp in the waffle house slaughter is caught.
    FLASH!....two million gun owners used their weapons to save their lives last year according to an unpublished report cited by the Centers for Disease Control.
    FLASH! Governor Cuomo(Idiot, NY) publicly stated he is an undocumented illegal and requested that he be sent back where he came from. New Jersey?

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