California ranks No. 8 and DC hits the charts at No. 10. The results were tabulated by asking 100,000 employees if their employers were hiring, who were keeping their workforces the same and who were laying off."The figures reported here represent the net difference between the percentage reporting an expansion and the percentage reporting a reduction in their workforces," the Gallup Web site says.
I wonder if DC made the dismal list because of all those out of work Bush loyalists.
The news about my home state is particularly troubling, where unemployment has reached 9.3 percent, the highest since 1994, Newsweek reported. All that, and California is supposed to be the eighth-largest economy in the world, circa 2007. I mean, now, who the Hell knows.
The news comes as a copy of H.R. 1: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka: The $819 -- and climbing -- stimulus bill, prepared specifically for me by the Congressional Budget Office, that's right) sits looming on my desk. The 647 page bound document is a clusterfuck of measures to aimed to (hopefully) keep us from careening to our collective deaths as a
To keep my head from exploding, I have limited my daily intake and output of analysis on the document. Of course, some things are good -- but some things make you go, "Holy fuck." And that's a direct quote.
But, I digress. Gallup also listed the ten BEST markets.
At first glance at the spiffy chart, a reader may inquire, "Why WYOMING?" (Note: Any other state on the list, with few exceptions, can replace the example.) I had a similar reaction, actually. But it immediately became clear to me that the states on the list are such boring, homogenious states that industry thrives. They're practically begging people to come live there. For example, Wyoming has a larger pronghorn (a deer-like creature) population than it does human residents. Seriously.
At least California's cool. We're poor. But damn, we're cool.
Bonne nuit, et bonne chance.
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