And this might be part of the administration's problem: we don't do research (Pittsburg Tribune Review, Pennsylvania is a "swing state".)
With job creation grinding to a complete halt, U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis on Aug. 31 was asked this question: "Why do you think there have been so many jobs created in the last decade in Texas?"
She laughed and said, "Come again."
The questioner rephrased his query, adding a citation: "The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas estimates about half of the jobs created in the U.S. in the last decade have been created in Texas. Why do you think that is?"
Replied Solis, "I haven't done a lot of research in terms of the economic growth in Texas."
It appears that Solis has no interest in looking at how a state with 8 percent of the nation's population has created nearly half of the nation's new jobs over the past 10 years.
That exchange occurred on the final day of a month in which the United States experienced zero net job growth -- the first time that's happened since 1945.
It seems every time we get a speech about "more job creation," there's a story on "job de-creation."
Old news (last week):
- Bank of America will cut 30,000 employees.
- US Postal Service will close 3,700 small post offices.
- Cut in defense spending will result in increase in unemployment rate by 1 percent (from 9.1 percent today to 10.1 percent, all things staying equal).
- US Postal Service looking at closing 250 mail processing centers including the ones at Devils Lake, Grand Forks, and (if you can believe this) Minot. Didn't Williston have a processing center many years ago? And that operation moved to Minot? I can't remember.
The financially troubled Postal Service said Thursday it may close more than 250 mail processing facilities - including the facilities in Devils Lake, Grand Forks and Minot - across the country and plans to reduce service standards for first-class mail in an effort to cut costs.
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