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re: Southern Economies at a glance
Posted on 4/18/14 at 10:29 pm to Govt Tide
Posted on 4/18/14 at 10:29 pm to Govt Tide
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Louisiana is such a low growth state
Say what?
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Louisiana continues to have a strong trend of job growth, hitting a record high for the sixth month in a row in March and exceeding 2 million employed residents for the first time ever.
While just over 2 million Louisianans were employed in March 2014, there were 93,473 unemployed, creating an unemployment rate of 4.5 percent. Although the figure was flat from the month prior, it was the best in the 17-state southern region and the seventh-lowest in the nation, according to figures released from the state labor department.
Strong job growth
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Btw, why wouldn't you include Huntsville (traditionally Alabama's strongest economy) or Mobile for Alabama?
They weren't any better. I gave instructions in the OP as far as how to get the data yourself "(click links on left for other states)"
Huntsville-6.5
Mobile-8.1
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Posted on 4/19/14 at 2:51 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
By "low growth state" I'm referring to population growth, not job growth. States with high population growth like Texas and Georgia have a disadvantage with unemployment stats because they have higher labor participation rates. Up through the 2010 census and even before Katrina, Louisiana had the slowest population growth of all the Deep South states. Now that the economy is picking up there the population growth is finally speeding up.
This post was edited on 4/19/14 at 2:54 pm
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