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That's not a good analogy as just because a state is more populated, doesn't automatically mean it's going to create more jobs, or have a better working environment for a company to open shop there.
For example the top 5 worst states for job growth, only one, Alaska, is on the list and is also a low populated state. The rest of them are not, most notably Wisconsin which is the worst, however is up there as one of the more populated states.
Why are you trying to assert that a state like California, with the nearly meaningless 2nd high est job creation number, counters the original ranking of California as last place for a state to do business and create jobs?
Why are you trying to assert that a state like California, with the nearly meaningless 2nd high est job creation number, counters the original ranking of California as last place for a state to do business and create jobs?
That doesn't make sense. The real numbers are what it all comes down to, what are the actual jobs being created, not what someone says in a theoretical question of which state should be the best to create them.
The source is an ultra-right wing propaganda site and has no credibility. Wisconsin is dead last in the nation for job creation. They have been losing jobs month after month from Walker's ultra right wing agenda.
The source isn't Newsmax. The source is Chief Executive Magazine who has been reporting on this for years (even through the Bush administration). Newsmax is just reporting what Chief Executive Magazine says.
Sorry, I should have posted that link, too.
"California’s enduring place of perpetual decline continues in this year’s ranking. Once the most attractive business environment, the Golden State appears to slip deeper into the ninth circle of business hell. The economy, which used to outperform the rest of the country, now substantially underperforms. And its status as the most ruinously contentious place to operate remains undisturbed in eight years. Its unemployment rate, at 10.9 percent, is higher than every other state except Nevada and Rhode Island. With 12 percent of America’s population, California has one-third of the nation’s welfare recipients. Each year, the evidence that businesses are leaving California or avoid locating there because of the high cost of doing business due to excessive state taxes and stringent regulations, grows. (See “Eastward Ho!”) According to Spectrum Locations Consultants, 254 California companies moved some or all of their work and jobs out of state in 2011, an increase of 26 percent over the previous year and five times as many as in 2009."
"Best and Worst States To Do Business and Create Jobs"
Theories and statistics may be relevant for today, but not guaranteed accurate for a month from now or 5 years from now. Businesspersons shouldn't be making decisions based on such short-term information.
If you look at the data at the base of this report (a CEO survey), California has been at the bottom of the rankings for many years. Hardly short term information.
The items that businesses like or dislike concerning business growth - like taxes and the regulatory climate, and a qualified workforce, DO NOT change quickly.
There is no way on earth that California's rankings on a survey like this could change quickly.
Actually I can tell you alot fo texas that a person from Arizona would perhaps like;but they are not the most popular as far as people moving here. I think perhaps demograhics of population movement says more than anything .
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