The Alabama County I live in (Cullman) posted a 3.6% unemployment rate for August - 2nd lowest in the state.
You aren’t hearing it much on TV, but I think people are beginning to thoroughly hate their DemocRAT taskmasters. Even Pelosi’s own party members are staging a mutiny against her refusal to be reasonable about passing additional stimulus. I think Trump is going to overwhelm Biden with a tsunami. I only pray that we take the House and Senate, then a whole lot can be fixed.
Here in SoCal I am witnessing the New Normal. The freeways are still empty, there is NO rush hour traffic in the morning, a little in the afternoon, but it is like Driving in the 70’s all over again. What took 1 1/2 hours 6 months ago, now takes 25 minutes to drive. I do NOT see it coming back in the foreseeable future, California is DEAD, most just don’t know it yet
i feel like Nevada was not killed by lockdowns, but by having an economy so dependent on travel, when major big-money states like New York prohibited travel for so long.
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States that DID NOT VOTE DEMOCRAT are OPEN AND THRIVING while blue states experience further economic destruction.
And their people remain locked in their homes, with nowhere to go, unable to attend church services, and while most businesses are ORDERED to remain closed, or barely open (loads of restrictions).
Let that sink in.
Traffic in the suburbs east of Phoenix is back to normal.
That is why they are being kept locked down and everyone knows it.
Unemployment rates in parts of NYS are way higher than that 12.5%.