A good problem to have

[SunsetBengal]

(06-21-2017, 02:07 PM)xxlt Wrote: 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

Well, the entire point of the OP was to point out that there are indeed areas of the United States where good paying jobs are available, and not enough people to work them.  "But, that's only 2% of all counties in the United States!", makes no difference in the point of the post.  Perhaps if some of the people struggling to attain work in some of the more downtrodden regions would go to where the jobs are, then it could be a win-win. 

Need an example?  In the post depression mass farm exodus, A LOT of people from the South migrated to the factories of the Midwest.