States with the slowest recoveries

no california?  no nevada? 

 

figures don't lie but liars can figure

California is circling down the drain, driving businesses away daily, was named the worst state for business for the 8th year in a row, has a THIRD of all welfare recipients, but apparently is rock solid according to this propaganda piece.

Hello There  Anyone hear about Las Vegas Nevada.  Listen up folks, just because it is a meccaa for gamblers, the residents suffered the biggest losses because of the government, banks and lenders in the housing crisis and therefore the unemployment plummeted when people couldn't pay for their homes they left.  Research the truth and let it be known, the state of Nevada doesn't even appear anywhere, maybe someone is trying to protect Harry Reid, let me tell you something, where ever he got his money, i don't have any and barely holding on to the home I have which I afforded until some jackel came along and decided it was worthless to them.  Give me a break

Article states that South Dakota has one of the lowest weekly earnings at $690 a week! Give me a break,  I live in Illinois and if you make $690 a week you are doing OK, most jobs advertised in this state seem to pay $10 or less an hour!!! That's why new articles like this are in my opinion bogus and are written by people with no real clue of reality on the ground. They get their information sitting in some some comfortable office while "interpreting" worthless official reports!!!

Tell me, how does a State with an unemployment rate of 3%, 4%, or even 5% qualify as having a "slow recovery"???   Some of these States never had a recession in the traditional sense of the word.  Take Nebraska for instance, which has been hit harder by last summer's drought than by the Great Recession, with their unemployment rate never exceeding 4.7%.  What kind of a recession is that, an event that wouldn't even qualify as a minor slowdown in most of America?  So their home prices were down by 2.5%, whoopee!

I notice that Michigan or Ohio didn't make your list, even though both States still have more people unemployed than even live in North Dakota!   You also report South Dakota as having a very low unemployment rate, which obviously does not include the many unemployed Crow and Sioux natives living on reservations within the State either.

Also, that reported unemployment rate for 2007 seems very low considering that all of the major cities of the southern Great Lakes region had unemployment rates in the double-digits by then too.   My guess is that if the GW Bush administration was willing to neglect to mention that $2 trillion that they stole from Social Security, that also caused them to egregiously under-report the Federal budget deficit that entire time, that grossly under-reporting the actual unemployment rate (or the actual inflation rate too) would have not been outside the realm of logical possibility either!

THIS APPEARS TO BE A POORLY RESEARCHED PIECE WITH MISLEADING TITLE.  SEVERAL STATES ON THIS LIST  WERE BARELY TOUCHED BY THE RECESSION, FOR VARIOUS REASONS.  I'd expect a listing of states that did suffer and were slow on recovery, given the title.  This is a series of interesting tidbits but little substance, and certainly no theme.