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Originally Posted by Roadking2003
I think the chart on the web site is quite clear and not misleading at all. It says Texas had 8.27% of the workforce beginning in 2010 but added 19% of the new jobs.
Let's check your math using population rather than workforce as you suggest.
Texas added 350,650 jobs in 2010 and 2011 with a population of 24,304,000. That's 14.47 jobs per thousand residents.
OK added 41200 jobs in 2010 and 2011 with a population of 3,644,000. That's 11.31 jobs per thousand residents.
CA added 181,750 jobs in 2010 and 2011 with a population of 36,580,000. That's 4.97 jobs per thousand residents.
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I use the same math as you, you just represented it differently. I'll show the data just like you, so you can see what I mean.
Texas added 350,650 jobs in 2010 and 2011 with a population of 25,145,561(census). That is
13.94 jobs per thousand residents.
North Dakota added 23,550 jobs in 2010 and 2011 with a population of 672,591. That is
35.01 jobs per thousand residents.
For the years of 2010 and 2011,
North Dakota created about 2.5 times as many jobs as Texas per-capita. Does that mean the governor of North Dakota is twice as good as Rick Perry? Or are there other factors?
Lets look at the numbers for only 2011 and see how Texas is doing....
Texas added 114,750 jobs in 2011 with a population of 25,145,561. That is
4.56 jobs per thousand residents.
Wisconsin added 28,700 jobs in 2011 with a population of 5,686,986. That is
5.04 jobs per thousand residents(10% more jobs per-capita than Texas).
Massachusetts added 35,300 jobs in 2011 with a population of 6,547,629. That is
5.37 jobs per thousand residents(17% more jobs per-capita than Texas).
Oklahoma added 26,700 jobs in 2011 with a population of 3,751,351. That is
7.11 jobs per thousand residents(56% more jobs per-capita than Texas).
North Dakota added 8,100 jobs in 2011 with a population of 672,591. That is
12.04 jobs per thousand residents(264% more jobs per-capita than Texas).
So what does this mean exactly? I mean, so far
in 2011 even extremely liberal Massachusetts is outperforming Texas. My home state of Oklahoma is blowing Texas out of the water. And North Dakota is continuing to completely dominate in jobs creation.
Maybe this man should be running for president, because according to the theory that a states jobs creation equates to good leadership. Then this man makes Rick Perry look incompetent.
Jack Dalrymple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Or maybe, just maybe. There is more to this whole job creation thing than just the numbers. What if the reason North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Texas are doing so well in job creation is because they have something, a lot of something, buried beneath their states. And that something that they have, has produced crazy profit margins the last few years, allowing those states to be largely insulated from the recession.
If that is true, maybe this jobs report thing is completely useless. And maybe Rick Perry's supposed accomplishments don't not really exist at all.
But it does make me wonder, how is Wisconsin and Massachusetts creating all those jobs?
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