Time to saddle up and head for Nebraska!
Time-lapse map of unemployment rates by U.S. county during recession
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Re: Time-lapse map of unemployment rates by U.S. county during recession
#42Was this done with R?
Re: Time-lapse map of unemployment rates by U.S. county during recession
#43What's so great about the Dakotas? My guess is that there is a higher fraction of agriculture/rancher/self employed that simply scale back employment rather than the binary in or out of a job. "My small business is not doing very well" won't likely show up in unemployment statistics.
More of the people in those states are employed doing the things that have to get done every day ... wait the tables, make the beds, feed the cows. Jobs that don't go away but also don't enrich. With pockets of exception, they don't have nearly as many technical or research or development or education or arts or entertainment jobs ... and those they have got usually couldn't pay any less.
"Perpetual misery" might be a caustic, but appropriate, description. (Spent much of my life in them.)
Re: Time-lapse map of unemployment rates by U.S. county during recession
#44Did we really need those jobs in the first place? I don't mean whether each individual was benefiting from the income from his or her job. Collectively, were the jobs a net benefit or drag on the rest of us?
When you've become dependent on cheap foreign labor to produce what we need, then you have to get creative to employ hundreds of millions of Americans. So: maybe its partly because we 'like a good deal' (more crap, less quality) that more people aren't doing the productive work Americans did before we became a 'service' economy. Can't have it both ways.