Job-Creation Gap Widens Economic Red State-Blue State Divide

PJ Media ^ | 03/16/2018 | Simon Constable

[digger48]

Exactly. Indianapolis area solid blue, but the majority of people who work there live in the very red counties outside the donut.

Hamilton county, ne of Indy is one of the fastest growing and higher income areas in the country right now.

[WayneS]

I stopped reading at: ...Washington, D.C.-based Institute of International Finance (IIF)

[TTFlyer]

And 5 ft. of snow.

[mewzilla]

Last I knew only businesses doing anything Upstate were getting taxpayer funded bribes to do so. NYS has poured over $3 bil down that rathole. It doesn’t work.

[mewzilla]

You can afford the house. Doubtful you can afford the property taxes on it. We know folks who can’t sell their $150,000 to $300,000 homes due to four and five figure property taxes.

[Retvet]

Actually there is a more evident divide. RURAL VS Urban, why I suspect rural people help each other more, while urban people want the big bucks. Urban people are more willing to exploit others for the dollar. Proof look at silicone valley, owners mega bucks, major contributors better than average, worker bees below average, maintenance slave wages. Dems like this arrangement they can promote things will get better under communism.

[Labyrinthos]

Yeah, everybody is moving to upstate New York, Massachusetts, Kalifornia, and Illinois looking for work. /S

The current growth industry in upstate New York is U-Haul and moving van franchises.

[montag813]

The dirty secret of the jobs boom is that almost all the new jobs are going to foreigners, legal and illegal

[ManHunter]

Uh huh, just look at the people rushing in to California, New York, Massachusetts, etc.... /s

Sorry for the interruption, now back to reality.

[Theoria]

“The recovery in the U.S. has been driven by increasing assets prices for stocks and houses,” says Daniel Lacalle, chief economist at money management firm Tressis in London. But many in the middle class don’t own stocks and not all own real estate, so they didn’t see the benefit of the stock rally or the housing price rebound.

Plus, Lacalle points out that the middle class suffered increased taxation and higher healthcare costs. In other words, the boom in jobs left out substantial parts of the country, but so did the booming stock market and the recovering housing sector as well.

One of the reasons I hate any president touting the stock market.

[MTsumi]

That’s what I’m saying, we’re below the national avg. and if you go regional, the tech heavy North Alabama is even better.

[EdnaMode]

Don’t blue states tend to have higher populations? Also why are people fleeing blue states in droves if they are doing so much better?

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[Windflier]

Red areas lagging blue areas in employment? Pure left-liberal propaganda.

[mewzilla]

In the last 60 years or so, NYS has lost over half the House seats it had. Anyone who defines that as doing well makes Baghdad Bob look like a piker.

[mewzilla]

Almost half is what I meant to type.

Good news for the nation: We’ve got less juice in the chamber with the power of the purse.

[Pining_4_TX]

Yes, this puzzled me, but I wonder if it has anything to do with red states having more minorities and illegals?

[Will88]

Put another way, the urban-rural economic rift is even larger than the state-by-state difference.

Have these geniuses ever heard of commuting to work from a suburban or rural area to an urban area where the tall office buildings are?