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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsInteresting map: Unemployment rates by county, March 2011-Feb 2012..
http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2012/04/the_geography_o.htmlraccoon
(31,111 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)So there's some low wages and benefits to go along with that low unemployment...
http://www.iuoe.org/JoinIUOE/AdvantagestoBeingUnion/tabid/83/Default.aspx
raccoon
(31,111 posts)robinlynne
(15,481 posts)I think the low UE states have alot to do with the oil boom. I'm in Kansas, and guess what? Most people don't know it, but oil is drilled here. With the high prices, old wells have been re-opened, etc., etc.
As far as RTW vs non RTW goes....I think a table showing annual pay, as a percentage of cost of living, would be more instructive.
As an example, I live in Topeka, KS...average annual income is $39k....if I were to move to Joliet, IL, I would have to make $54k a year, to match my lifestyle....yet the average annual pay in Illinois is only $49k. Pays more, but buys less. It would be laborious to do this drill for every state; but, that's really the only true way to know what the salary disparity is.
raccoon
(31,111 posts)oil resources said that after the easily obtainable oil was gone, oil companies would go after the oil that's more difficult to obtain or more troublesome to process (Alberta's tar sands, for instance). That seems like a no-brainer, but I don't know if I'd have thought
about it.
Oh, Toto, we're not in TEXAS any more....
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Those are the Indian reservations. Some of the most grinding poverty in all the land.
pipoman
(16,038 posts)notoriously high cost of living are among the highest rates..
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)thanks to everyone who supports sending jobs overseas and tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. The wealthy are bleeding this country dry and turning their backs on their own countrymen and women while they do so. And yet they still whine about the rest of us.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)That is as of March 2012
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/04/state-unemployment-rates-decline-in-30.html