14 states hit record-low unemployment

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14 states hit record-low unemployment

By Reid Wilson - 04/23/18 11:21 AM EDT

Fourteen states have set new records for low unemployment rates in the last year, nearly a decade after the recession put millions of Americans out of work.
 
The states hitting new unemployment lows run the ideological gamut, from conservative Texas to liberal California, suggesting a recovery stronger than any particular political persuasion.
 
In March, eight states saw new record lows, including Hawaii (2.1 percent), Idaho (2.9 percent), Kentucky (4 percent ), Maine (2.7 percent), Mississippi (4.5 percent), Oregon (4.1 percent) and Wisconsin (2.9 percent).
 
California also set a new record last month. The Golden State’s unemployment rate stands at 4.1 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). That’s the lowest rate recorded since BLS began keeping track of state-level unemployment figures in 1976, and it’s a third of the 12.3 percent unemployment rate California notched at the height of the recession in December 2010.
 
Colorado’s unemployment rate is just 2.6 percent, among the lowest in the nation, and a third of the 8.9 percent peak it hit in 2010.
 
In Alabama, just 3.7 percent of workers are unemployed. Arkansas reached a 3.6 percent unemployment rate last May, its lowest rate ever.
 
North Dakota set its own record last year. Texas hit a 3.9 percent unemployment rate in November, after peaking at 8.3 percent during the height of the recession. Tennessee fell to the lowest unemployment rate it has ever measured, 3.3 percent, in January.
 
Hawaii’s unemployment rate is the lowest in the nation, BLS said. Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota and Wisconsin all have unemployment rates lower than 3 percent.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/384414-14-states-hit-record-low-unemployment

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Proof yet again....

[GrouchoTex]

..and just when I was going to say something nice LOL.

Tax cuts work.
Now, let work to make the Fed Gov spend less.

[truth_seeker]

..and just when I was going to say something nice LOL.

Tax cuts work.
Now, let work to make the Fed Gov spend less.

Would you cut social security, or the military, or both?

I might be wrong, but Ross Perot seems to be the last major viable candidate, to run on serious fiscal restraint/reform.

[GrouchoTex]

Would you cut social security, or the military, or both?

I might be wrong, but Ross Perot seems to be the last major viable candidate, to run on serious fiscal restraint/reform.

Entitlements are the largest expenditure.
Privatizing social security may be the only way to save it, although saying so just gets your hand slapped.
It could be done reasonably.
Say, Everyone 18 and under, as of today (or any given date), will have a percentage of the FICA and Medicare Taxes sent to companies x-y-z.
I think this will be a hard pill to swallow, but a necessary one.

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Proof yet again....

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