Tuesday, Mar 1, 2016
* The Pew Charitable Trusts’ “Fiscal 50” interactive has updated its 50-state employment data…
Employment Rates Inch Closer to Prerecession Levels
The U.S. employment rate for adults of prime working age has been rising for four years, and the number of states with lower employment rates than before the Great Recession has been shrinking. Despite these signs of improvement, however, the labor market had not completely recovered from the economic downturn by mid-2015.
* Illinois is above the national average and, believe it or not, is ahead of Texas in the chart entitled “Employment Rate for Prime-age Workers by State, FY 2015″…
* But we’re not doing extraordinarily well in the “Percentage-point Change in Employment Rate, CY 2007 to FY 2015″…
Something’s gotta change here, man.
[And, yes, I read that second chart wrong, but it’s still not great.]
- Posted by Rich Miller
Above is from: http://capitolfax.com/2016/03/01/a-tiny-bit-of-good-news-but-more-bad-news/
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