Interesting posting by Jim Miller on Politics - Subject is Black Unemployment by State

Worst States And Best States For Black Unemployment: The Department of
Labor has released a report on black unemployment, and the news is
grim. Walter Mead has a good discussion of the findings in the report,
but does not say much about the differences between the states.,

,Those differences are worth discussing because the variation among
states is so high.,,

The five worst states for black unemployment are Wisconsin (25.0
percent), Michigan (23.9 percent), Minnesota (22.0 percent, Maine (21.4
percent), and Washington (21.1 percent). All five are significantly
above the national rate for blacks, 16.2 percent. (In May, the
comparable rates for whites and Hispanics were 8.0 and 11.9,
respectively.),,

The five best states for black unemployment are New Hampshire (10.3
percent), Hawaii (9.6 percent), Idaho (8.0 percent), Wyoming (6.2
percent) and Alaska (5.4 percent). (The map at the end of the report
has Arizona at 10.2 percent, which contradicts the text. I am fairly
sure that's a mistake in the map.),,

(There are no estimates for four states with very small black
populations, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Vermont.),

,I am not going to draw any grand conclusions from these differences,
since I don't know enough about the policies of those ten states. But I
will observe that most leftists would consider the five worst states
"progressive" (I would say reactionary), and that most leftists would
have other adjectives for the five best states, except, of course, for
Hawaii.,

,And I will add one small point about Washington state: My home state
has the highest minimum wage in the United States, thanks to a
labor-union-backed initiative. That may be one of the reasons that
black unemployment is higher here than in most other states., Cross
posted at Sound Politics. ,- 9:49 AM, 13

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