06-21-2017, 02:07 PM
(06-21-2017, 09:26 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: With so many of our posts and articles shared in this forum being of the negative variety, it was nice to see a news article showing that there are areas of the US more good paying jobs than people to work them.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/in-this-part-of-the-midwest-the-problem-isn%E2%80%99t-china-it%E2%80%99s-too-many-jobs/ar-BBCY3Aw?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp
According to Wikipedia there are 3144 counties or county equivalents. According to the linked article 73 have an unemployment rate below 2%, like the county featured. 73/3144 is just over 2%. So in 98% of the counties the unemployment rate is higher, sometimes dramatically so (and of course unemployment numbers from the DOL are always artificially low). But that is some great news and some first class cherry picking to find it.
In other great news, in 2% of America's 616,000 plus restaurants nobody got food poisoning today! In the other 98% (over 603,000) at least one person got food poisoning! Isn't that great news? Most folks would say, "No!" I just made that up, but the point is 2% of the counties (some doubtless very small like the featured one) having low unemployment is not great news.
Oh, and what is the solution to the low unemployment rate in the county highlighted in the article? Probably per the article the biggest employer will leave - more great news!?
Yours truly,
Nattering Naybob of Negativity
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
