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Tampa isn't on the list? This city had a 12.5% unemployment rate in 2010 and now a 7.5%(I think). Things are doing so much better here. Construction has returned to the city. At one point it was so bad that potholes in major roads weren't even getting filled.
Tampa isn't on the list? This city had a 12.5% unemployment rate in 2010 and now a 7.5%(I think). Things are doing so much better here. Construction has returned to the city. At one point it was so bad that potholes in major roads weren't even getting filled.
Tampa is on there, but the OP just included the largest metro areas. The area has a 6.9% unemployment rate.
3%+ Drop in Unemployment, March 2010-March 2013
Detroit -5.4%
Riverside -4.1%
Portland -3.9%
San Francisco -3.8%
Miami -3.6%
Phoenix -3.3%
Seattle -3.2%
San Diego -3.1%
St Louis -3.0%
#usa
San Francisco is now down to 6.0%. So it's been a -4.8% change since March 2010.
We might be using a different source, since mine suggests that SF's UE peaked at 10.1%.
We all know the answer to this. It sure doesn't feel or look like its dropping
Once I saw the initial post, I was waiting for this response. I feel like we've reached a point in our society, thanks to political polarization and the Internet/TV news echo chamber, where it's not permissible to express optimism toward the direction of the country.
I work for a news website and we ran a poll on our homepage the other day asking users if the economy is improving where they live. Around 70 percent said no. Now, is the economy where it should be? I don't think so. Is it improving quickly enough? That's debatable. But I think it's an indisputable fact that it's improving -- I don't think that's a matter of opinion at all. I told our managing editor that the unemployment rate could drop to 3 percent and we could put that poll up every day for the next 10 years, and we'd get the same result every time: 30 percent yes, 70 percent no.
I went out to eat Tuesday night -- historically a slow restaurant night -- at one of the many new restaurants in my neighborhood. It was packed, and we had to settle for a smaller table than we needed. A few years ago, it felt like a third of the storefronts on the main shopping drag were vacant. In 2013 three gastropubs have opened within half a mile of my apartment in the past month. I questioned the business sense of their owners, opening the same thing that everyone else seems to be opening -- but what do I know, all of them have been full every time I walk past.
Once I saw the initial post, I was waiting for this response. I feel like we've reached a point in our society, thanks to political polarization and the Internet/TV news echo chamber, where it's not permissible to express optimism toward the direction of the country.
I work for a news website and we ran a poll on our homepage the other day asking users if the economy is improving where they live. Around 70 percent said no. Now, is the economy where it should be? I don't think so. Is it improving quickly enough? That's debatable. But I think it's an indisputable fact that it's improving -- I don't think that's a matter of opinion at all. I told our managing editor that the unemployment rate could drop to 3 percent and we could put that poll up every day for the next 10 years, and we'd get the same result every time: 30 percent yes, 70 percent no.
I went out to eat Tuesday night -- historically a slow restaurant night -- at one of the many new restaurants in my neighborhood. It was packed, and we had to settle for a smaller table than we needed. A few years ago, it felt like a third of the storefronts on the main shopping drag were vacant. In 2013 three gastropubs have opened within half a mile of my apartment in the past month. I questioned the business sense of their owners, opening the same thing that everyone else seems to be opening -- but what do I know, all of them have been full every time I walk past.
You can blame yourself for this. In the history of this nation, there has never been a time when the news media so corrupted and compromised its integrity for the sake of a president and his ideals. Your profession has become a joke and both sides of the political spectrum know it.
Once I saw the initial post, I was waiting for this response. I feel like we've reached a point in our society, thanks to political polarization and the Internet/TV news echo chamber, where it's not permissible to express optimism toward the direction of the country.
I work for a news website and we ran a poll on our homepage the other day asking users if the economy is improving where they live. Around 70 percent said no. Now, is the economy where it should be? I don't think so. Is it improving quickly enough? That's debatable. But I think it's an indisputable fact that it's improving -- I don't think that's a matter of opinion at all. I told our managing editor that the unemployment rate could drop to 3 percent and we could put that poll up every day for the next 10 years, and we'd get the same result every time: 30 percent yes, 70 percent no.
I went out to eat Tuesday night -- historically a slow restaurant night -- at one of the many new restaurants in my neighborhood. It was packed, and we had to settle for a smaller table than we needed. A few years ago, it felt like a third of the storefronts on the main shopping drag were vacant. In 2013 three gastropubs have opened within half a mile of my apartment in the past month. I questioned the business sense of their owners, opening the same thing that everyone else seems to be opening -- but what do I know, all of them have been full every time I walk past.
It's because more and more people no longer believe in our colluded financial system, and for very good reason.
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