Great graphic: job gains and losses 2004-09

By: Michael Barone
Senior Political Analyst
10/16/09 12:56 PM EDT

One of the pleasures of regularly reading University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds’s Instapundit blog is that he links to so many interesting webposts. Example: this great graphic on the geography of job gains and losses between 2004 and 2009. Just click on and enjoy. You’ll note that metro Detroit has been bleeding jobs the whole time; you’ll see the robust job creation in Texas in the middle years and its continuing job creation in 2008 (for a moment Texas was generating 80% of the nation’s job gains, mainly because so many metro areas elsewhere were losing jobs); watch the huge job gains and then huge job losses in Phoenix and Las Vegas and southern California. And note this warning from Reynolds: “It looks like some nuclear-war animation toward the end.”

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ladybug

Oct 16, 2009

Wow! The graphic is fascinating to watch.

It clearly shows what many of us have been trying to say, which is that job losses started some time ago and people have been staggering along trying to support themselves with little help from the government other than unemployment benefits. I'm not knocking those benefits, because that money is vital to people trying to stay in their homes and feed their families, but where are the strategies for job creation?

This should not be a surprise to those in office and having access to this information. Why are they doing virtually nothing to reverse the trend, all the while telling us it is 'less worse' than it could be.

Job creation has to have a higher priority!

BJA

Oct 16, 2009

Just look at all of those red dots, especially watch them grow like Clifford. It is ironic that those same areas voted for Gore, Kerry, and Obama. It is time they learn to vote for the people that will put them too work. I also bet those very same people haven't made one investment on their own and are relying on the government to continue making contributions to their entitlement programs.

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Great graphic: job gains and losses 2004-09

By: Michael Barone
Senior Political Analyst
10/16/09 12:56 PM EDT