Southern states an epicenter for U.S. job losses

[gr99a05]

Thank God! Now there is hope for the South to remain Southern after all. I wouldn't mind Northerners living down here so much if they weren't so hateful to our way of life. When in Rome do as the Romans do!

[le roi]

I'm sorry, but this is a bad article, and a bad thread.

Nowhere does the article discuss the number of jobs lost. The article instead references the unemployment rate.

This is important, because many local economists point out that it is not massive job losses that are the problem down here, but rather an increase in regional population during a global economic contraction. You add more people in a recession, you'll get much higher unemployment rates, even if job losses are relatively minor compared to other states.

[Maabus1999]

Originally Posted by rubber_factory

I'm sorry, but this is a bad article, and a bad thread.

Nowhere does the article discuss the number of jobs lost. The article instead references the unemployment rate.

This is important, because many local economists point out that it is not massive job losses that are the problem down here, but rather an increase in regional population during a global economic contraction. You add more people in a recession, you'll get much higher unemployment rates, even if job losses are relatively minor compared to other states.

Agreed. And it also doesn't dicuss the year over year change in either #'s or unemployment rate %.

[DailyJournalist]

Originally Posted by Maabus1999

Agreed. And it also doesn't dicuss the year over year change in either #'s or unemployment rate %.

However it is a fact that Florida lost the most jobs in the nation only second to the much larger California in 2008.