Posted on 06/21/2012 9:41:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The nation's recent recession had a "broad and deep" impact across the United States, but certain states such as Florida and California were particularly hard-hit, according to a report released on Thursday.
The study, led by Yale University political science professor Jacob Hacker, found that while the U.S. Northeast was largely spared from the economic fallout in the years after the Great Recession, the U.S. South and West were hit harder.
Researchers said their study is the first state-by-state look at the how the downturn affected economic security and household incomes. It was paid for by the Rockefeller Foundation, a global nonprofit organization focused on relieving economic inequality.
States in the Midwest, a large industrial hub, saw a slower economic erosion from 2008 to 2010, the findings showed. The recession officially ran from late 2007 to mid-2009.
"No part of the nation was spared. Nonetheless, some states were hit particularly hard," the report said.
Hacker's team ranked the recession's impact on states by developing a measurement tool based on government economic data, called the Economic Security Index.
The index represents the percentage of the population who experienced a substantial financial loss from one year to the next. Specifically, it shows the share of Americans who experienced a financial loss of 25 percent or greater due to either a decline in income, an increase in medical spending or both.
States with the worst economic losses from 2008 to 2010 were Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and California. Among the states with the least impact were Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maine....
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
In a word, yes.
Bush, racism and capitalism are preventing Obammy from saving us./s
Brain dead is more like it. Other adjectives come to mind. Stupid. Corrupt. Lazy. Greedy. Dishonest. Apathetic. At best ignorant. Confused.
I don’t have much faith in most of them.
Where is he leading in the polls? He losing in Rasmussen and gallup. Below 45%, which is the kiss of death for an incumbent. He’s losing most of the traditionally red states, and even in some traditionally blue states.
“It was paid for by the Rockefeller Foundation, a global nonprofit organization focused on relieving economic inequality.”
Ha! Rockefeller (David for sure, probably Nelson as well) was a big new world order, one world government globalist.
“Relieving economic inequality” indeed. /s
“....found that while the U.S. Northeast was largely spared from the economic fallout in the years ***after*** the Great Recession, the....”
after? After? AFTER?
Bloomberg Poll: Obama 53 - Romney 40
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2897499/posts
Not Your Father’s Poll (Women seeking sugar daddy’s prefer Obama)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2897583/posts
Obama immigration shift a hit with voters, says new poll
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2896948/posts
We’re out of the recession with over 8% unemployment, more by better measures?
We’re out of the recession with personal net worth down 40%, congretional committees grilling bogus solar panel scams, producing few permanent jobs, at tremendous cost?
We’re out of the recession with annual federal budget deficits of over $1 trillion into the nearly infinite future?
We’re out of the recession with “too big to fail” federalized banks’ creditworthiness downgraded?
"recent recession had"
The scumbag Democrat newsrooms crack me up! Whatever they can do to help their scumbag Kenyan communist get re-elected.
Gee, I'm sure glad the recession is over.
As dear old Dad always said, "Once the parasites outnumber the hosts, it's all over."
Congratulations to the scumbag Democrats.
We’re out of the recession with over 8% unemployment, more by better measures?
We’re out of the recession with personal net worth down 40%, congretional committees grilling bogus solar panel scams, producing few permanent jobs, at tremendous cost?
We’re out of the recession with annual federal budget deficits of over $1 trillion into the nearly infinite future?
We’re out of the recession with “too big to fail” federalized banks’ creditworthiness downgraded?
We’re out of the recession with over 8% unemployment, more by better measures?
We’re out of the recession with personal net worth down 40%, congretional committees grilling bogus solar panel scams, producing few permanent jobs, at tremendous cost?
We’re out of the recession with annual federal budget deficits of over $1 trillion into the nearly infinite future?
We’re out of the recession with “too big to fail” federalized banks’ creditworthiness downgraded?
Showing that, yet again, Ivy League graduates and professors are masters of the obvious.
They should be so terribly proud of themselves.
I loved the spin on Walker’s victory in Wisconsin; people there just felt that “the recall shouldn’t be used in that manner”.
Dems have lost every significant election since the election of 2008 (including those in NJ and MA in 2009 - Dem states, and 1 year after Obama carried them), so you can ignore the polls. I don’t see how ANY Republican loses to this dope.
Bush’s tax cuts, coupled with Governor Christie’s property tax cap (which costs thousands of cops, teachers, etc. their jobs in NJ over the past 2 years) indicate to me that the Republicans better represent the interests of the taxpayers (while the Dems obviously represent the interests of the tax consumers).
When Bush gave out his tax rebate, he made it clear he was returning the money to the people who earned it (it wasn’t some gift from the government); on the other hand, Obama is campaigning to restore teachers and other parasites that serve as funding for their political arm (AKA the Democratic Party) by stealing from the taxpayers.
The national Democratic Party, boiled down to its simplest terms, is nothing more than the political arm of the teachers’ unions.
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