More on Oklahoma’s Employment Situation: A Graphic I Wanted to Steal ….
…. but I resisted. So go there and see it. I’ll link to it in a couple of paragraphs.
It supports my post yesterday on Oklahoma’s vastly improved employment situation, and the possibility that its enforcement-based immigration reform law contributed to it.
The graphic is from Tim Iacono at his “The Mess That Greenspan Made” blog. It shows the 12-month unemployment-rate changes in each state, with different-colored ranges, for each month starting in March 2007 (i.e., March 2007 v. March 2006) and ending in March 2008.
Commenter Bill from Maryland tipped me to the graphic, and said:
Watch the state of OKLAHOMA light up like an island of salvation in the darkness at the end of this sequence of 13 panels showing changes in unemployment for March 2007 through March 2008.
Indeed. Oklahoma is the only state in the union where February and March 2008 unemployment was over a point lower than 12 months earlier.
Tom,
Thanks for the input at my blog. I credited Newsbusters and left all of the links, including those to your blog (BizzyBlog), in place. If that was not sufficient, then please accept my apologies if I violated any rules of blog etiquette. I certainly meant no disrespect.
In the future, I’ll truncate my post. Thank you for the tip.
CL
Comment by Crush Liberalism — April 23, 2008 @ 8:21 pm