Posted on 02/12/2015 11:58:22 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
(WTNH) — Gallup’s Job Creation Index for 2014 was recently released, showing the rankings for each state. Connecticut ranked last, followed closely by Alaska.
Gallup’s Job Creation Index is derived from full- and part-time workers’ reports of whether their employer is hiring and expanding the size of its workforce, not making changes, or letting people go and reducing its workforce.
In North Dakota, the state that ranked first, 48% of workers in 2014 said their employer is hiring and 12% said their employer is letting workers go, resulting in a +36 Job Creation Index score. By contrast, Connecticut’s +16 index score reflects 33% of workers saying their employer is hiring and 17% letting go.
The 2014 state-level findings are drawn from 201,254 interviews with employed adults nationwide, conducted throughout the year as part of Gallup Daily tracking. The full results by state are provided in the table at the end of this article.
Connecticut and Rhode Island tie for compiling the worst collective job creation scores since 2008 and are the only states to have ranked in the bottom 10 each year. New Jersey is not far behind, ranking among the lowest states for net hiring in all but one year. . .
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If you’ve ever spent any time in DC....you come to note how it’s impossible to create a new business, new pub, new restaurant, new anything. You have to have some personal lobbyist who is connected to the city council and is helping you get a seat at the table. That’s why the city council elections provoke big dynamics and interest.
When Wal-Mart expressed interest in putting two stores into DC....the council drew the company into deep negotiations. They were pushed toward donating toward “community-groups” as one step. They were pushed toward guaranteeing that only DC residents would get the jobs created (no Maryland or Virginia residents). Every single step was geared in some way for a political donation to come to this city council guy and that city council woman.
Go over into SW DC and look for a grocery. You won’t find a single one within that region of the district. Between crime, lack of cops, and frustrations with the city council....there are no groceries within a 2 x 2 mile area of DC...yet thousands of residents.
Connecticut need higher taxes... (sarcasm)
Poll based on EMPLOYED OVER 18. Worthless.
I can testify to this. I work at a major defense contractor with 100s of engineers. Many of them young and about 2 or 3 years out of college. Whenever they leave for greener pastures, it is at least 5 states away. I also would like to leave this overtaxed state, but ..... that is another story.
lol. Where's the editor?
A lot of tax incentives to entice businesses back to welfare hatcheries have conditions like that (forcing them to hire the unemployable residents that made it a hell-hole to begin with).
No surprise NJ is in bad shape as well; to buy a home or open a business here is to buy a share in a massive (and growing) IOU to retired public employees. It is killing CA, and it is killing NJ as well; the only “business” that’s thriving is public education - and it is killing the state.
Yes but those CT jobs value inclusion, diversity, etc. etc. zzzzzzzzzzzz
Isn’t Connecticut just a “bedroom state”? Kind of like a suburb of New York City.
Only for the lower left-hand corner (a.k.a. "Fairfield County").
The jobs situation definitely sucks compared to the 1980s. I wouldn't recommend anyone moving here. I may have to tell my son to leave for some other area of the country. Doesn't look like anything is going to improve in the near future.
Ping!
The Governor of CT is an Obama clone and truly believes his centralized approaches create jobs. My next door neighbor (a former CEO of a very large well-known company based here) had Malloy’s ear, and tells me that Malloy has absolutely no clue about low taxes and the fostering of an environment that actually creates jobs.
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