CARPE DIEM: U.S. Employment Growth, By State

Sunday, July 01, 2007

The good (red), and the not so good (blue), from Global Insight.

At 7/01/2007 6:05 PM, Anonymous said...: Looks like Michigan's a total joke.
At 7/02/2007 9:38 AM, juandos said...: Well this is interesting since there seems ('seems' is the operative word here) be a bit of a disconnect maybe by what Global Insight reports and what Missouri Governor Matt Blunt's office has to report: The state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.6 percent in May which is nearly identical to the U.S. seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 4.5 percent

The folks at the Bureau of Labor statistics reports that 33,500 more jobs in Missouri over this time last year

Are they all saying basically the samething?

Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University near Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan-Flint, Perry is also a visiting scholar at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.