Unemployment by state

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Official unemployment figures in the U.S are even more of a (not really very funny) joke than other places.

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All this tells us is where the short term problems are (that's written wrong. ach) and even then it's totally useless in agricultural areas.

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Ouch, California.  How could such a booming state, the epicenter of the .com explosion, be in such dire conditions?

A quick glance at a map can be decieving: look at the parts where all the people live.

Yeah, I enlarged it after I posted, that makes more sense.  On the other hand, the rest of the state should not be that far behind not only in California but the whole country.

It's all agricultural.

See Iowa.

Very (very, very, very) different sort of agriculture though.

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Why do they even bother to release these figures when everyone knows that they're a sick joke [qm].

O.K.

They do have a partial use. They can tell us where jobs are being lost right now and where there is a very unstable (different to "very shitty", though generally related) labour market, but they tell us very little about the pattern of unemployment itself. Where bist the blackspots [qm]. You can't actually tell from those figures.

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West Virginia certainly isn't a low unemployment state. Let's just say that it's position on the list shows quite how much of a joke official unemployment statistics are...

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West Virginia certainly isn't a low unemployment state. Let's just say that it's position on the list shows quite how much of a joke official unemployment statistics are...

Of course it's not a low unemployment state, and the statistics are a joke, but they probably have a real unemployment below the national average thanks to all of the federal spending there.

Employment rate in WV for the past few years has been around 50%; U.S average is like 60%.

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West Virginia certainly isn't a low unemployment state. Let's just say that it's position on the list shows quite how much of a joke official unemployment statistics are...

Of course it's not a low unemployment state, and the statistics are a joke, but they probably have a real unemployment below the national average thanks to all of the federal spending there.

Employment rate in WV for the past few years has been around 50%; U.S average is like 60%.

Real unemployment isn't 100%-employment, there are obviously people without a job who don't want one.

Obviously. But there's no reason to assume that this would be concentrated to such an extreme degree in WV. Especially not when there are good reasons to assume that there are extremely high levels of structural unemployment in parts of the state.