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#1 Jun 18 2013 at 11:51 AM Rating: Good
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Jobs. jobs. jobs.

Since the recession hit in 2008 I've heard so much rhetoric about government's role in creating jobs I could puke.

Pew released this chart last week showing job growth by state. Only three states failed to add jobs - WI, WY, and ME.

Surely there isn't a single cause for each of these states failing to grow their respective economies, but do you think there a contributing cause shared among the three (and/or other poor performers).










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#2 Jun 18 2013 at 11:58 AM Rating: Excellent
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Elinda wrote:
Surely there isn't a single cause for each of these states failing to grow their respective economies, but do you think there a contributing cause shared among the three (and/or other poor performers).
All three are bordered by states that had a increase in the number of jobs. Clearly the other states are just stealing their jobs.

Edited, Jun 18th 2013 10:59am by someproteinguy
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#3 Jun 18 2013 at 12:55 PM Rating: Decent
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someproteinguy wrote:
Elinda wrote:
Surely there isn't a single cause for each of these states failing to grow their respective economies, but do you think there a contributing cause shared among the three (and/or other poor performers).
All three are bordered by states that had a increase in the number of jobs. Clearly the other states are just stealing their jobs.

Edited, Jun 18th 2013 10:59am by someproteinguy

Or, they're barren, useless wastelands.
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#4 Jun 18 2013 at 1:17 PM Rating: Excellent
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I'd imagine the three states are already hit a 1:1 job to person ratio. All twelve of them are employed.
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This explains why Scott Walker is running ads in Illinois saying businesses should move to WI.
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#6 Jun 18 2013 at 2:57 PM Rating: Decent
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Elinda wrote:
Pew released this chart last week showing job growth by state. Only three states failed to add jobs - WI, WY, and ME.

Surely there isn't a single cause for each of these states failing to grow their respective economies, but do you think there a contributing cause shared among the three (and/or other poor performers).


Those are deltas over the last year. You have to look at where they were then and where they are now relative to other states. Wyoming, for example, currently has an unemployment rate of 4.8%. So the fact that it went *up* last year isn't exactly a disaster. Maine and Wisconsin are ranked 24th and 29th respectively. So none of them doing horribly.
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#7 Jun 19 2013 at 2:54 AM Rating: Good
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i'm pretty sure that most the biggest gainer states are all taking advantage of extraction of natural resources type jobs. as in the kind that are not permanent or sustainable.
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#8 Jun 19 2013 at 3:35 AM Rating: Decent
Wisconsin is a shithole. Buncha toothless cousinfuckers.

Job growth numbers (or the lack thereof) be damned.

This has nothing at all to do with Football. Nope not one bit.


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#9 Jun 19 2013 at 6:04 AM Rating: Good
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My family is all from WI and while my mom and dad were both toothless, they had/have very nice dentures. You'd never know they weren't real. Smiley: grin

There is this article that sort of accompanied the chart. The reasons given for job creation from state to state were of two broad categories - government funded stimulus, mostly investment in infrastructure and secondly were corporate tax cuts.

They gave no reasons whey the failing states failed, but clearly WI was the biggest 'fail'.
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#10 Jun 19 2013 at 6:33 AM Rating: Good
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Those are deltas over the last year. You have to look at where they were then and where they are now relative to other states. Wyoming, for example, currently has an unemployment rate of 4.8%. So the fact that it went *up* last year isn't exactly a disaster. Maine and Wisconsin are ranked 24th and 29th respectively. So none of them doing horribly.
The chart is illustrating job growth from state to state over the last year.

Regardless of their unemployment rate before April-2012, three states failed to create any jobs and in fact lost jobs. ie they didn't grow economically, they contracted.

That's all.





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#11 Jun 19 2013 at 7:35 AM Rating: Excellent
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You'd never know they weren't real.
We do now.
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#12 Jun 19 2013 at 7:45 PM Rating: Default
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Elinda wrote:
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Those are deltas over the last year. You have to look at where they were then and where they are now relative to other states. Wyoming, for example, currently has an unemployment rate of 4.8%. So the fact that it went *up* last year isn't exactly a disaster. Maine and Wisconsin are ranked 24th and 29th respectively. So none of them doing horribly.
The chart is illustrating job growth from state to state over the last year.

Regardless of their unemployment rate before April-2012, three states failed to create any jobs and in fact lost jobs. ie they didn't grow economically, they contracted.


Right. But job creation isn't the same nationwide. Another way of looking at it is that maybe those three states experienced increased job growth a year or two ago, while other states didn't. Now those other states are catching up, while they're bouncing back a bit. What matters is the resulting unemployment rate, not the deltas, and certainly not deltas over such a short period of time.

If state A and state B both start with 8% unemployment in year 0, then state A drops its unemployment by 3.5% in year 1, while state A stays the same (so A is at 4.5%, while state B is at 8%), then in year 2, state A's unemployment increased by .5%, while state B drops by 3%, which state is better off? Both are the same. If you look at the two year change, both decreased unemployment by 3% from 8% to 5%. The fact that they took slightly different routes getting there isn't something we can say is relevant just by looking at the last year delta.

Now if state A continues to lose jobs while state B grains them *then* you can declare some kind of problem for state A. Numbers like these could easily be explained by some states spending more on job creation in past years and less last year, while others did the opposite. There's just not enough data just in that one year delta for us to assume anything significant about the "why" question.

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Elinda wrote:
You'd never know they weren't real.
We do now.
At least until this thread dies and everyone forgets about it.
#14 Jun 20 2013 at 6:56 AM Rating: Good
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gbaji wrote:
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gbaji wrote:
Those are deltas over the last year. You have to look at where they were then and where they are now relative to other states. Wyoming, for example, currently has an unemployment rate of 4.8%. So the fact that it went *up* last year isn't exactly a disaster. Maine and Wisconsin are ranked 24th and 29th respectively. So none of them doing horribly.
The chart is illustrating job growth from state to state over the last year.

Regardless of their unemployment rate before April-2012, three states failed to create any jobs and in fact lost jobs. ie they didn't grow economically, they contracted.


Right. But job creation isn't the same nationwide. Another way of looking at it is that maybe those three states experienced increased job growth a year or two ago, while other states didn't......

But the chart isn't about those other years.

Couldn't read no further.
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gbaji wrote:
But job creation isn't the same nationwide. Another way of looking at it is that maybe those three states experienced increased job growth a year or two ago, while other states didn't.
Maybe those other states were victims of a zombie outbreak and had to put job creation on hold so they neither lost nor gained in the previous year. You aren't accounting for a zombie apocalypse?

Edited, Jun 20th 2013 9:26am by lolgaxe
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#16 Jun 20 2013 at 11:19 AM Rating: Good
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I don't think that Gbaji is incorrect about looking at these statistics outside a vacuum.
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It is pretty incorrect when he argues against them with hypotheticals.
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he argues against them with hypotheticals.



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I don't think that Gbaji is incorrect about looking at these statistics outside a vacuum.

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I think it's time for a good 'ol fashioned strawman burning.
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#21 Jun 20 2013 at 11:54 AM Rating: Good
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Timelordwho wrote:
I don't think that Gbaji is incorrect about looking at these statistics outside a vacuum.
Sure, if the answer you're looking for is outside of the vacuum.

This chart I put up, yes it's just a snapshot, but it has it's own story that can be told without any additional information. The accompanying explanation and the question I posed are simple and straightforward and can be accomplished with the information presented.

gbaji didn't even attempt to answer the question, but instead he just went running off to gbajiland, fingers all a flight atop his keyboard, overusing the word delta and never getting close to making a salient point.

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I think it's time for a good 'ol fashioned strawman burning.

I'll bring the pudgy pie irons.
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I think it's time for a good 'ol fashioned strawman burning.
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After looking at the data, WY has a very low UER(4.8%) so it's difficult for them to add new jobs, WI has a large portion of it's constituents working in the manufacturing sector, which has been one of the most hard hit sectors, apart from construction, and they have one of the lower UER's for the great lakes region, Maine is of course affected by the construction/housing market failures as they provide materials for much of the regional construction. Maine also has the misfortune of being Maine. Granted, there are more exacting analysis-es of the general policy and economic transformations which caused these states specifically to go into the red with regards to job creation.

Here is a map of states by UER, if you'd like to see the trajectories If you zoom in, you can also see the delta for counties and metro areas.
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Not as much fun as witch burning but at least it's legal.
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Surely there isn't a single cause for each of these states failing to grow their respective economies, but do you think there a contributing cause shared among the three (and/or other poor performers).

No, and this is a borderline useless metric in any case. "States" are such asymmetrical geographic and demographic groups as to make most comparisons meaningless. You can drive any narrative you like with isolated statistics.
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