http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20110518/FREE/110519875/will-snyders-tax-cuts-grow-jobs-in-a-world-of-grays-the-answer#Among the states that the Tax Foundation says have the best business tax climates, unemployment rates vary widely.
South Dakota, which the Tax Foundation says has the best business tax climate in the country, posted the second-lowest unemployment rate in the nation at 4.9 percent in March.
But Nevada, which ranks as the fourth-best business tax climate, recorded a jobless rate of 13.2 percent in March, the highest in the country.
The Ann Arbor-based think tank Michigan Future Inc. regards per capita income as a better indicator of a state's economic health. Its model of prosperity among Great Lakes states is Minnesota, which has the highest taxes in the region but also the highest per capita income, the highest educational attainment rate and the lowest poverty rate.
Minnesota also had the lowest jobless rate among the Great Lakes states in March at 6.6 percent. Yet, the Tax Foundation ranks Minnesota's business tax climate as a dismal 43rd among the states.
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Michigan was the leading state last year for job creation, due mostly to the Obama/Granholm policies supporting the auto companies, the turn
toward more fuel efficient cars, and a strong movement toward renewable energy and green manufacturing
http://www.mlive.com/jobs/index.ssf/2011/02/michigan_led_the_nation_in_job_creation.htmlMichigan led all states when it came to the most improvement in job market conditions between 2009 and 2010, according to the Gallup Job Creation Index, with a 20 point increase that reflected an improvement in the manufacturing sector.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/06/idUS371535885920110406?pageNumber=1Michigan's "green" economy is growing fast, data shows, with thousands of clean energy jobs on the horizon as a new manufacturing base is being built on the expertise of its battered auto industry.
Former Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, whose second term ended in January, said in an interview that Michigan businesses are expected to create more than 150,000 clean energy jobs in the next decade from $14 billion of projects in the pipeline.
The jobs will stem from 17 advanced battery companies and nearly 50 solar, wind and biofuels companies that came to Michigan from August 2009 to December 2010, lured by state tax credits and federal stimulus grants, Granholm told SolveClimate News.
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bottom line, Repubs don't give a rats ass about jobs, -- they exist to serve the Ayn Rand philosophy of Koch funded think tanks like the Mackinac Center.
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