MSNBC is just reflecting the depression in the north...UNION men are going the way of the Dodo...and they’re trying to act like it’s a national phenom. It’s really not. At the same time the unions are dying and the liberals are so depressed, people are flocking to the most conservative states in the union, and finding work — AZ, NV, TX, FL... The working man still works and has a decent wage.
Read the other day that the situation in Texas is pretty bad now.
Yes, it would be interesting to see an analysis of this type between union states and right to work states.
The aim of this article seems to be that of persuading people that more government spending is needed for education.
The days you could just graduate HS and get a factory job are gone, now you are lucky if you get a burger flipper job.
TN is a right to work state, no state income tax, and we still have the same unemployment rate as the more liberal states. Only exception is Memphis where UE is 12.1% and youth it’s 24% as of the last news burb I heard. People are fleeing Memphis in droves, not only because of the bad schools, and high property taxes, but because crooked dems control the entire county now.