48 out of 50 States Have Lost Jobs since 2009 Stimulus LawWhile the President went to Ohio Monday and repeatedly claimed his trillion-dollar 2009 stimulus plan was “the right thing to do,” it’s hard to tell that from looking at the job situation across the U.S. According to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Labor, and the chart below, through April 2010 a total of 48 out of 50 States had seen net job losses since the President signed the Democrats’ stimulus plan into law in February 2009. The data show that only Alaska, North Dakota and the District of Columbia have seen net job creation since then. And (other than the perhaps predictable exception of D.C.) even those States that have seen some increases in jobs are still well short of the growth the White House originally forecast. What is clear is that 2.7 million more jobs have been eliminated since Democrats’ stimulus, unemployment rose to 9.9 percent instead of falling to 7.4 percent as Democrats predicted, and 15 million Americans – an all-time record for the month of April – are currently unemployed. To see how the Democrats’ stimulus has failed your state, see the table below. State Administration Projection of Change in Jobs Through December 2010 Actual Change in Jobs Through April 2010 Alabama +52,000 -49,600 Alaska +8,000 +2,600 Arizona +70,000 -79,400 Arkansas +31,000 -20,400 California +396,000 -534,900 Colorado +59,000 -89,300 Connecticut +41,000 -38,600 Delaware +11,000 -10,600 District of Columbia +12,000 +8,400 Florida +206,000 -188,100 Georgia +106,000 -125,600 Hawaii +15,000 -10,300 Idaho +17,000 -17,800 Illinois +148,000 -163,100 Indiana +75,000 -37,700 Iowa +37,000 -26,700 Kansas +33,000 -36,800 Kentucky +48,000 -16,800 Louisiana +50,000 -35,000 Maine +15,000 -17,500 Maryland +66,000 -30,400 Massachusetts +79,000 -52,000 Michigan +109,000 -110,600 Minnesota +66,000 -51,300 Mississippi +30,000 -26,900 Missouri +69,000 -49,100 Montana +11,000 -7,300 Nebraska +23,000 -12,300 Nevada +34,000 -66,600 New Hampshire +16,000 -9,000 New Jersey +100,000 -76,600 New Mexico +22,000 -23,900 New York +215,000 -107,600 North Carolina +105,000 -81,600 North Dakota +8,000 +3,500 Ohio +133,000 -138,300 Oklahoma +40,000 -44,700 Oregon +44,000 -49,600 Pennsylvania +143,000 -86,300 Rhode Island +12,000 -18,600 South Carolina +50,000 -26,900 South Dakota +10,000 -5,000 Tennessee +70,000 -66,600 Texas +269,000 -144,800 Utah +32,000 -23,100 Vermont +8,000 -7,200 Virginia +93,000 -46,200 Washington +75,000 -79,500 West Virginia +20,000 -14,300 Wisconsin +70,000 -75,400 Wyoming +8,000 -10,100 Source: Administration February 2009 projection and Ways and Means staff calculations based on Department of Labor data.
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