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To: sockmonkey; txrangerette
.........."I'll leave you with my personal favorite chart. I mentioned at the beginning that Texas is seeing high unemployment in a large part because they're growing so damn fast. The problem with this from a charts and graphs perspective is that it leaves worse states off the hook, making them look better than they actually are. Looking at unemployment alone, we would conclude that Wisconsin has a better economy than Texas. But Wisconsin is still 120K short of it's pre-recession numbers. The only reason they look better than Texas is because 32,000 people fled the state.

During that time, 739,000 people fled into Texas. Anyone who takes that data and pretends that this is somehow bad news for Texas is simply not being honest. At the worst, I'd call it a good problem to have.

So, to give something of a better feeling for the economic situation across states, this chart takes the population of the states I selected above and judges the current job situation against the population as it stood at the beginning of the recession."....Source


16 posted on 12/21/2011 1:33:38 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

If Texas had the same population it did prior to the recession, it would have somewhere around 2.8% unemployment.


18 posted on 12/21/2011 1:58:02 PM PST by Chasaway ( Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?)
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