The Geography of a Recession

[Pat K]

http://www.latoyaegwuekwe.com/geographyofarecession.html

[Jim Johnson]

Don't be alarmed; it's standing right behind you.

[brycen]

Wow, interesting to see how much better things are in NH than all the states around. I also noticed a strip of states in the midwest, like ND down to KS where the unemployment never gets to the top category. I would like to see it continue past Feb 2011, though.

According to Peter Schiff, the FedGov is understating inflation by at least 1% and therefore we are back in recession already this year.

[Pat K]

The Dakotas and other area's have found a
crap load of natural gas and oil with new drilling
tech. They cant get enough qualified workers.
Housing is also short.

[Russell Kanning]

yea .... there are guys going from texas to drill and such for oil in ND.

[littlehawk]

We have all mexican crews working on putting up windfarms here. It is big income for them as they work here 6 months and go back to their homeland. Then can live like Kings in mexico and then return again and again to the USA (United Slaves of AmeriKa) for more good employment. They also love to work cheap which lands them the jobs easily. Almost all construction crews are all mexican. They are great workers and ameriKan employers love them. And while they "visit" here they get lots of free stuff. What a great country it is!

[Russell Kanning]

another interesting thing to watch is Grafton County on the map

[Jim Johnson]

another interesting thing to watch is Grafton County on the map

...which is an indication of how much government money goes into Dartmouth and it's medical center.

[Russell Kanning]

I would guess that is the biggest factor, partly I think they still have money and the medical establishment has not crashed yet.
When you look at the rest of the map .... it seems places full of farmers and oil have the least unemployment.
I always wonder how they get their numbers anyhow.

[brycen]

We have all mexican crews working on putting up windfarms here. It is big income for them as they work here 6 months and go back to their homeland. Then can live like Kings in mexico and then return again and again to the USA (United Slaves of AmeriKa) for more good employment. They also love to work cheap which lands them the jobs easily. Almost all construction crews are all mexican. They are great workers and ameriKan employers love them. And while they "visit" here they get lots of free stuff. What a great country it is!

My store in Utah has a contract crew of Mexicans who clean the floor at night, it saves us a bunch of money so that we get higher profit as a store and therefore bigger quarterly bonuses for workers. They work every day, no holidays or vacation and are happy to have the work.

Did you see the article about, I think it was Georgia or South Carolina, somewhere around there, where food is rotting on the vines / in the fields because they passed some kind of law against illegal immigrants and now the farmers can't get enough help even to harvest their crops. Most of the American workers who go out there find out how hard it is on the first day and quit, and a lot of food is going to be lost because of the widely believed economic fallacies of nationalism in the workforce.

Yeah, they work cheap - other people could compete that way too if not for minimum wage laws. And I'm sure our immigration laws have a lot to do with why they return to Mexico every year.