State Reports Show Job Losses in Last 18 Months
by Guest Blogger, 3/24/2003
A new report issued by the Minority Staff of the House Appropriations Committee reveals the total number of jobs lost in each state since January 2001, when President Bush took office.
| The authors of the report also calculate that the President would have to create 141,000 jobs per month “in order not to have the worst 4-year job record of any President in the last 60 years.” |
While approximately one-third of states have actually shown small increases in the number of jobs, all other states have shown drops in the last 2 years. States like Georgia, Missouri, and Massachusetts were hardest hit with 3.53 percent, 3.45 percent, and 3.22 percent of jobs lost since January 2001, respectively.
