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[Weigookin74]

Time to go home if you're American?

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm

State unemployment rates dropping.

Table B. States with statistically significant unemployment rate changes
from May 2013 to May 2014, seasonally adjusted
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| Rate |
|-----------|-----------| Over-the-year
State | May | May | change(p)
| 2013 | 2014(p) |
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Arizona ........................| 8.0 | 6.8 | -1.2
Arkansas .......................| 7.5 | 6.4 | -1.1
California .....................| 9.0 | 7.6 | -1.4
Colorado .......................| 6.9 | 5.8 | -1.1
Delaware .......................| 6.8 | 5.9 | -.9
Florida ........................| 7.5 | 6.3 | -1.2
Georgia ........................| 8.4 | 7.2 | -1.2
Idaho ..........................| 6.4 | 4.9 | -1.5
Illinois .......................| 9.2 | 7.5 | -1.7
Indiana ........................| 7.7 | 5.7 | -2.0
| | |
Kansas .........................| 5.6 | 4.8 | -.8
Louisiana ......................| 6.4 | 4.9 | -1.5
Maine ..........................| 6.7 | 5.7 | -1.0
Maryland .......................| 6.7 | 5.6 | -1.1
Massachusetts ..................| 7.0 | 5.6 | -1.4
Michigan .......................| 8.9 | 7.5 | -1.4
Montana ........................| 5.7 | 4.6 | -1.1
Nevada .........................| 10.1 | 7.9 | -2.2
New Hampshire ..................| 5.2 | 4.4 | -.8
New Jersey .....................| 8.4 | 6.8 | -1.6
| | |
New York .......................| 7.8 | 6.7 | -1.1
North Carolina .................| 8.3 | 6.4 | -1.9
Ohio ...........................| 7.4 | 5.5 | -1.9
Pennsylvania ...................| 7.5 | 5.6 | -1.9
Rhode Island ...................| 9.5 | 8.2 | -1.3
South Carolina .................| 7.9 | 5.3 | -2.6
Tennessee ......................| 8.4 | 6.4 | -2.0
Texas ..........................| 6.4 | 5.1 | -1.3
Utah ...........................| 4.5 | 3.6 | -.9
Vermont ........................| 4.3 | 3.3 | -1.0
Washington .....................| 7.0 | 6.1 | -.9
Wisconsin ......................| 6.8 | 5.7 | -1.1
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p = preliminary.

[yodanole]

If you are here as an economic refugee, then those numbers should comfort you as you seek a travel agency

[Yaya]

What I'm hearing is that most of the jobs being created are in retail, meaning low paying and pretty much dead end.

[cabeza]

[Chaparrastique]

[PRagic]

Employment has been added disproportionately in service (retail and food).

We also have one of the lowest overall labor participation rates in the past 30 years; many have given up on getting hired or can't get full time work if they want it so they're stuck in part time.

If you're in IT, biotech, or other STEM fields, and you're willing to go where a job is, then you have a shot. I don't know anyone 'back home' who was unemployed over the course of this fiasco.

If you're in education and thinking of going the route of admin, then there are also jobs, largely owing to the charter school movement. For regular teachers K-12, getting hired has a lot to do with being able and willing to go where the jobs are.

[Weigookin74]

Well, I didn't say it was booming and the coasts are still hurting. Most states are seeing their rates go down. But, an economy doesn't technically reach full employment until the rate gets close to 5 % or less. Many states as of May 2014 seem to be closing in on this as many of these states have enacted economic reforms in recent years. The coastal states that haven't changed are still lagging behind.

If you have your debts paid off and you have some money saved up, you know where to move to.

If the national rate gets down to 5.5% or less and many states keep falling, then it will be better. I'm barely old enough to remember past recoveries. In the beginning of the recoveries, the rates go down and the jobs are said to be Mcjobs, but quickly expand into other industries. The demand for workers in this environment even pushes up wages. Prolonged unemployment rates of 4%ish with many states posting 2 to 3 % rates often means even stupid people get hired.

I remember visiting America during past booms and none of us could get over the rudeness or incomptetence of workers in many types of jobs. (These are the type of things in higher unemployment places that workers would be fired for very quickly.) But what's an employer to do if he can't get anyone else? (Similiar phenomenon here in Korea before the recession.) At any rate, if you're actually smart, ambitious, and hard working, you can advance in this type of environment. This is unlike the east coast of Canada (Maritimes) which is a total backwater and it doesn't matter how smart you are. In that environment, it's more about who you know, which family you're from, and if you speak French or not (which most folks don't adequately in English Canada).

[Weigookin74]

[radcon]

That's funny. Back when the Canadian teachers far outnumbered the Americans the Canadians said it was because Canadians had a sense of adventure and loved to explore new cultures and not because of the poor Canadian economy.

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[Weigookin74]

[Yaya]

[Konglishman]

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