I'm wondering how the availability of jobs coinsides with safe places to relocate to?For me,no matter how safe an area is,I could not possibly consider it unless there were jobs available.In my previous post"WHICH STATE"we were looking at the following states,ME,MH,VT,NY,PA,VA and WV.From what I have found out so far the job market in ME,NH and VT are not to good and nothern NY and northwestern PA are not much better.The southeast,including VA,WV,NC and TN seem to have much better job opportunities.It also seems that people from New England don't have a great reputation for being freindly or accepting of outsiders.What do you think?
BG,
If you read you own post you will see that you have already arrived at your decision. It's just that you don't realize it yet.
Don't be too quick...NC is in BAAADDDD! economic shape...the most taxed state in the Southeast. Very expensive to live in and high taxes! TN or GA are better choices...JMHO
Developing your own businesses is the best solution for the job problem. Start a business that has survival potential and write it off on your taxes. Examples: Buy a sawmill - you can cut materials for your own buildings as well as actually running it as a business. Planting a garden - You can eat the produce or sell it. Raise some animals for sale - you can always eat them yourself. Learn how to use as many tools as you can. Pick up as many skills as possible. Read "Survivor Volumes 1 thru 4" by Kurt Saxon. Many many jobs you can develop yourself.
I agree with Chad. Also, if you're on the Internet, sell something. Get a web site and open an online store. Sell at eBay. If you do it as a business, even part-time, you can take it off on your taxes. If your inventory consists of items, like soap or candles or office supplies, that you would have bought anyway and can always use yourself later, how can you lose by becoming self-employed? But first, develop a tight business plan and research it on the Internet by typing in whichever item or career you're interested in at search engines like www.google.com. Self-employment also means the need for self-discipline. Only the strong survive! It takes long hours of hard work and dedication to remain successfully self-employed. But at least you won't have to worry about getting fired or your job being moved suddenly to Mexico or elsewhere when your boss is YOU!
Are you forced to take a lie detector test at work? Here's how to beat the lie detector--not by being dishonest, but by understanding how the machine works and by knowing what your rights are.
How To Beat The Lie Detector
http://antipolygraph.org/articles/article-034.shtml
Remember the days when job applicants fussed over their resumés, guys donned shirts and ties, or girls dressed in skirts and black leather pumps as they prepared to apply for a job? Recently Barbara Simpson and her guest on Coast To Coast A.M. covered the same topic as appears below in this excerpt from The Columbus Dispatch on 6-7-03:
Veronica Horn walked into Amy’s Ice Creams in Houston with a paper bag over head and violin under her arm. While playing the instrument screechingly, she shouted, “Job! . . . Job!” Horn wanted to get hired there and was going through proper channels. The small chain seeks creative, outgoing people, and Horn’s performance was a part of her job application. Each candidate is handed a paper bag and asked to do something creative with it. Horn was hired. Traditional hiring methods are often inadequate because they don’t reveal enough about a candidate’s personality or show if her values are in sync with the company’s, said Dick Bell of human-resources consulting firm HR Counselors. (end of Columbus Dispatch excerpt)
I think I’ll take Joel’s advice and plan for a home-based business and self-employment. Who wants to go around with a paper bag on one’s head, playing a screeching violin to beg for employment?
Bush’s Bogeyman (excerpt from Investor’s Business Daily, June 9, 2003):
Employment: Forget Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. George W. Bush's biggest problem may be John Q. Jobseeker. That's apparent from Friday's jobs report, but also from our own polling in recent days.
Early results show Americans are no more secure in their jobs than they were when we inquired earlier this year, last year or even late in 2001. That, you recall, was when the nation was still in recession and reeling from 9-11.
More than one in five still say they or someone close to them has been laid off in the last 12 months. And one in five fear the ax will fall in the next 12. Nearly three in four say jobs are hard to find, not much different than in February.
Then we asked a question we hadn't asked before — how much Bush's policies are responsible for the situation. Forty-seven percent say "somewhat" and 19% say "very." That's two out of three, and that adds up to trouble for a president facing re-election in 17 months…
Read the full story here: http://www.investors.com/editorial/issues.asp?v=6/9
View NAFTA Related Job Losses In Your Town/State
http://www.citizen.org/trade/forms/search_taa.cfm
2003 offers the “worst job market in nearly a decade for college grads.”
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/0803/25special_nethaway.html
Excerpts from “US College Grads See Jobs Being Taken Abroad”
It's too late to worry about losing U.S. manufacturing jobs to Mexico as a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Mexico's workers now are in a panic over losing their NAFTA-generated manufacturing jobs to China, the world's new global manufacturing center . . . America's high-tech industries are hiring more and more foreign workers to write computer programs, design electronics and run research and development projects. And these are jobs in the United States that normally would go to skilled American workers with college degrees . . .
A recent USA Today article by Michelle Kessler and Stephanie Armour reported that jobs done by accountants, financial analysts, home loan processors, claims adjusters, architectural drafters and many others now are being done by inexpensive workers in foreign countries. "These include high-paying, highly sought-after jobs that often require advanced degrees and years of study to attain," said the Kessler-Armour article. "But instead of paying six-figure salaries to trained workers in America, more companies are shelling out $10,000 to $20,000 to get cheaper employees an ocean away."
"America's white-collar workers should not feel too smug. They can be replaced by cheaper foreign workers. That process is under way."
The good news is we’re more productive. The bad news is they don’t need as many of us.
From “Men at Overwork” by Brad Stone, Newsweek
Last Thursday, the Commerce Department reported that GDP grew at a respectable annual rate of 2.4 percent, fueled in large part by spending for the war in Iraq. But tell that to the 9.1 million Americans who are out of work. They probably paid more attention to Friday’s new stats: unemployment was hovering at an uncomfortably high 6.2 percent in July, and 44,000 additional jobs were axed from payrolls, marking the sixth month in a row the economy has lost jobs.
“This is the weakest national recovery since the postwar,” says California economist Steven Levy.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/946725.asp
Jobs Go Global
By Laura Fording
Tech jobs are moving overseas at an alarming rate. Other fields may soon follow. Why is it happening?
Excerpt:
Looking for a high-paying tech job? Good luck. Offshore outsourcing—the exporting of jobs that were once done in-house—has been on the increase, to the point where a report by Gartner Inc., an information technology research firm, calls the movement of tech-related jobs an “irreversible megatrend.”
By 2004, predicts another Gartner study, more than 40 percent of companies will have already shipped some tech-related work overseas or will be testing the idea. Many of those jobs are moving to India, where costs for employee salaries can be significantly reduced. Other countries stand to benefit as well. And, while the tech industry seems to be the most widely discussed thus far, other white collar types of jobs are also at risk…
NEWSWEEK: How rapidly is offshore outsourcing expected to grow? There has been quite a bit of press about it in recent weeks.
Ron Hira: Six months ago, I didn’t think that things were moving that fast. But I’ve been tracking some of the announcements by major U.S. technology companies and almost daily, it seems, they are talking about moving work overseas to cut costs. Forrester [Research Inc.] came out with a study that said that 3.3 million white collar jobs will go overseas by 2015. It’s hard to forecast out one year, let alone 12, so I’m a bit wary of real numbers. But I do recognize that it is real, and is gaining momentum every day…
http://www.msnbc.com/news/947478.asp
Joel advised that it’s important to “be flexible and be mobile” in the future. The author below points out that a two-income family loses something important that a one-income family has: flexibility.
Two Incomes Don’t Make Family Secure
By Scott Burns
Excerpt:
. . . A new book written by a mother-and-daughter team, Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi. "The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke" (Basic Books, $26) shows how and why the two-income family has reduced family financial security rather than increased it.
It also points out how incredibly fast this social and economic transformation has occurred—only 25 years.
As recently as 1976, they point out, a married mother was twice as likely to stay at home as to work full time.
By 2000 the situation was virtually reversed. The change is even more dramatic for mothers with very young children.
"A woman with a 3-month-old infant is more likely," the authors write, "to be working outside the home than was a 1960s woman with a 5-year-old child."
A law passed around the same time, the 1975 Equal Credit Opportunity Act, required lenders to recognize the income of women in mortgage applications, ending decades when it was not considered.
Before the law was passed, the primary earner's income determined how much could be borrowed.
The secondary earner's income was "extra." After the law was passed, lenders could lend more. They did.
More mortgage lending fueled a "bidding war" for houses in safe neighborhoods with good schools, driving up the price of housing.
In the same process, other committed expenses also increased. One-car families became two-car families. Two-earner families had to pay more for preschool and childcare.
The second earner increased income but also paid at higher tax rates.
While all this is part of a familiar litany — the chorus of books questioning the true benefits of having having a second worker in the family — professor Warren (she teaches at Harvard Law School) and her management-consultant daughter have added a significant new twist.
They've compared the uncommitted income of the single-earner family of the 1970s with the uncommitted income of today's two-earner family. They found income was up. But flexibility was down.
The two-earner family has no more uncommitted income—what economists call discretionary income—than the one-earner family of the past.
While 46 percent of the single-earner family's income of the 1970s was discretionary, only 25 percent of the two-earner family's income of the 2000s was discretionary.
Since "discretionary" income pays for things like food and clothing, we're not talking about money to fritter away. Basically, the modern family has a lot less "wiggle room" than the "Leave It to Beaver" family of the past.
Families today spend less per car than they did in the 1970s. Instead, they have two cars to get to two jobs.
At the same time, the probability of job loss in any year has doubled.
While the single-earner family of the 1970s had a 2.5 percent chance of job loss, the two-earner family of the 2000s has a 6.3 percent chance of job loss.
Most of that increase is the simple addition of the second earner, but the stress effect comes through loud and clear — today's two-earner family is more vulnerable, not less.
That, in turn, is why the worry won't go away. It's also why the bankruptcy rate is soaring.
The authors point out that 87 percent of all personal bankruptcies can be traced to three events: job loss, medical problems and divorce or separation.
While lenders continue to send credit cards and blank checks to anything with a pulse and complain about our declining moral fiber, the real causes of personal bankruptcy are the same today as they were 25 years ago . . .
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001763773_pfburns12.html
The 10 Most Dangerous Jobs in America
Occupation / Fatalities per 100,000
Timber cutters 117.8
Fishers 71.1
Pilots and navigators 69.8
Structural metal workers 58.2
Drivers-sales workers 37.9
Roofers 37
Electrical power installers 32.5
Farm occupations 28
Construction laborers 27.7
Truck drivers 25
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics; survey of occupations with minimum 30 fatalities and 45,000 workers in 2002
Full story at http://money.msn.com/content/invest/extra/P63405.asp
On the US job market--report by Norma Sherry:
http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1304
By the thousands jobs are being exported, or the new word, outsourced to India, Hong Kong, Peoples Republic of China, Panama, Manila, The Philippines; and many other countries where the local citizens speak English. Jobs are moving offshore to any country where the populace is accustomed to working for pennies a day. Any sum above a dollar in many cases, is the beginning to middle-class wealth and vast change of lifestyle... Since 1986, 15 million high-paying manufacturing jobs have left the US and American workers.
Be on notice, American workers. If your job can be performed as well elsewhere, you are in grave danger of losing your jobs. If your job relies on computer skills, telephone skills, manufacturing, your days are numbered. Any job that can be performed in another location, preferably outside of the realm of American wages and American work-related laws, are going. If you're a nurse or a physician, a medical technician, a physical therapist, even a nurse's aide, you're safe, at least for the time being. But if you're an x-ray technician, watch out. According to Irwin Kellner, a professor of economics at Hofstra University in New York, already many films are transmitted via the Internet and read abroad.
Diane Morello, research director and VP at Gartner, Inc., estimates that "based on her preliminary calculations, at least 500,000 jobs will be lost to offshore outsourcing by the end of 2004." Her company report also dimly states, "One out of 10 jobs in the US computer services and software sector could move overseas by the end of next year". Furthermore, the study indicates that "while professionals in the computer industry will be especially hard-hit, IT jobs in other sectors such as banking, health-care, and insurance will also feel the impact, with one in 20 being exported to emerging markets such as Russia, India, or other countries in Southeast Asia.
According to the Washington Post, 2.5 million factory jobs have disappeared since 2001.
If you're a draftsman, an architect, a computer programmer, a graphic designer, your days are numbered. If you're a plumber, electrician, construction worker, contractor, bricklayer, you're secure for now…
The very companies we made rich by buying their products, their computers, their software, their clothing, their kitchen gadgets, their televisions -- are thanking us by taking the jobs of our citizens and moving them, excuse me, outsourcing them, to countries and a workforce far from our shores.
Full story at http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1304
The 20 Best Paying Jobs In the US
Read the full story by Ben Murray at: http://editorial.careers.msn.com/articles/highestpay/
According to the 2001 Occupational Employment Statistics Survey conducted by the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the top 20 highest-paying professions in the US are:
From best (#1) to least (#20) pay:
1. Surgeons; $65.89 hr/$137,050 yr
2. Obstetricians and gynecologists; $64.15 hr/$133,430 yr
3. Anesthesiologists; $63.31 hr/$131,680 yr
4. Internists, general; $61.03/hr; $126,940/yr
5. Pediatricians, general; $56.03/hr; $116,550/yr
6. Psychiatrists; $54.60/hr; $113,570/yr
7. Family and general practitioners; $52.89/hr; $110,020/yr
8. Dentists; $53.28/hr; $110,820/yr
9. Chief Executives; $51.77/hr; $107,670/yr
10. Airline pilots, copilots and flight engineers; (N/A); $99,400/yr
11. Podiatrists; $45.43/hr; $94,500/yr
12. Lawyers; $44.19/hr; $91,920/yr
13. Optometrists; $42.35/hr; $88,100/yr
14. Computer and information systems managers; $40.33/hr; $83,890/yr
15. Physicists; $40.26/hr; $83,750/yr
16. Air traffic controllers; $40.07/hr/$83,350 yr
17. Petroleum engineers; $39.33/hr; $81,800/yr
18. Nuclear engineers; $38.56/hr; $80,200/yr
19. Judges, magistrate judges, and magistrates; $38.24/hr; $79,540/yr
20. Marketing managers; $37.70/hr; $78,410 yr
Figures reflect mean hourly pay projected out to a year-round, full-time annual average.
Placer, California leads the nation in employment growth. Wages grew fastest in Marin, California, while New York still pays the most per week. For more on top counties with job growth in 2003, counties with highest weekly pay, counties with fastest growing weekly paychecks and other information, see the article, “Where The Jobs And Paychecks Are” at
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/invest/extra/P66747.asp
Lou Dobbs Lists Outsourcing Giants
CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight has been one of the very few network programs that have challenged the reigning wisdom on trade and immigration policies, with Dobbs’ regular reports on the social and economic impact of illegal immigration and his "Exporting America" series. In October 2003, researchers at the University of California-Berkeley released a study predicting that as many as 14 million white-collar U.S. jobs could be outsourced to foreign countries in the next 10 years.
Recently, Dobbs posted a list of over 150 major U.S. companies that are leading the outsourcing boom. They include: 3Com, 3M, Aetna, Alamo Rent-A-Car, Albertson’s, AT&T, Bank of America, Bell South, Best Buy, Boeing, Capital One, Charles Schwab, Citigroup, Dell Computer, Delta Airlines, Earthlink, ExxonMobil, Ford Motor, Gateway, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Levi Strauss, Linksys, Lowes, Lucent, Maytag, Microsoft, Motorola, Northwest Airlines, Office Depot, Oracle, Prudential Insurance, Raytheon Aircraft, Sprint, State Farm Insurance, Time Warner, Unisys, Verizon, and Yahoo.
http://www.stoptheftaa.org/artman/publish/article_118.shtml
Where Did All The Jobs Go?
by Paul Craig Roberts
Excerpt:
Employment declines in manufacturing and knowledge jobs . . . have been dramatic.
Tables prepared by Charles McMillion of MBG Information Services from government data show employment in primary metals down 24 percent, machinery 21.6 percent, computer and peripheral equipment 28 percent, communications equipment 38.8 percent, semiconductors and electronic components 37 percent, electrical equipment and appliances 22.8 percent, textile mills 34.1 percent, apparel 37.3 percent, chemicals 8.3 percent, plastics and rubber products, 13.8 percent, internet publishing and broadcast 40 percent, telecommunications 19.4 percent, ISPs, search portals, data processing 22.6 percent, securities, commodity, investments 6.8 percent, computer systems design and related 17 percent.
Where has employment grown? Private service sector jobs have declined by 0.1 percent. Growth in state education jobs and local government jobs has boosted overall service employment by 0.6 percent.
More at http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/2/17/112324.shtml
What Are They Smoking at the Labor Department?
Excerpt:
Most of the 288,000 jobs that the Labor Department says were created last month may not really exist. They could be figments of statisticians' optimism. Back in the March employment report, the government added 153,000 positions to its revised total of 337,000 new jobs because it thought (but couldn't prove) loads of new companies were being created in this economy. That estimate comes from the Labor Department's "birth/death model." You can look up these numbers on the Department's Web site. As staggering as the assumption about new companies was in March, the Labor Department got even more brazen in April. Last Friday, it was disclosed that these imaginary jobs had been increased by 117,000 to 270,000 for the latest month - because, I guess, the stat jockeys got a vision from the gods of spring. Without those extra 117,000 make-believe jobs, the total growth for April would have been just 171,000 - sub-par for an economy that's supposed to be growing at more than 4 percent a year, but right on the pros' targets.
Take away all 270,000 make-believe jobs and, well, you have the sort of pessimism that the political pollsters are seeing . . .
Here's some more bad news about Iraq. A source in the intelligence community tells me that the U.N. oil embargo of Saddam Hussein was worthless because Iraqi oil was being shipped all these years to a Caribbean island called St. Eustatius, unloaded into onshore tanks and then reloaded into U.S.-bound tanker ships. The same switcheroo is being done with Iranian oil, I'm told.
http://www.rense.com/general53/labor.htm
There’s No Stopping The Offshore-Outsourcing Train
Forrester Research now says it expects that 830,000 U.S. service jobs will move to low-wage countries such as China, India, and Mexico by the end of 2005. Last year, the firm put that number at 588,000. The new study estimates that 3.4 million jobs will move offshore by 2015, up from 3.3 million predicted last year.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20900333
US Jobless Rate Misses 'Hidden' Unemployed
Buried inside the official U.S. employment report each month is a little-known figure that gives a much less rosy picture of the labor market than the headlines. The government agency that produces the data also publishes an alternative measure that tries to capture the hidden unemployed, those who are not included in the official unemployment rate for various statistical reasons. That broader measure is dramatically higher, at 9.7 percent in May, compared with the official level of 5.6 percent. That's an extra 5.96 million people, in addition to the 8.2 million "officially" unemployed, who are waiting on the sidelines and may at some point step back into the labor force.
http://www.rense.com/general53/hisi.htm
Entrepreneurs Reinvent the Family Farm
Small businesses find growth with upscale specialty products
Nov. 4, 2004
By Rachael King
MSNBC
Bill Wilson was 35 when it hit him: He wasn't happy working as a financial planner, and never would be. So he bought the farm. It was a vineyard, actually. Eighty-six acres in Temecula, Calif.
Wilson persuaded his family — parents, brother, sister and spouses — to buy it together. By 1999, they had moved into mobile homes on the property. Their savings went to build a winery and restore the vineyard. Now, Wilson Creek Winery & Vineyards' zinfandel, muscat, and cabernet are all award winners.
Call it the lure of the land. Just as the family farm seems destined to become a romantic icon of another era, entrepreneurs are spying opportunity in agriculture. Membership in the American Cheese Society has doubled, to 250 artisanal cheesemakers, since 2001. Small wineries now sell more than 66 percent of California wines priced over $15 a bottle, and shipments quadrupled in 2003, according to MFK Research, a wine consultancy in St. Helena, Calif. In 1989, just 12 farms offered internships; now, says the nonprofit National Center for Appropriate Technology, nearly 450 do.
None of these entrepreneurs compete with giant agribusinesses or grow crops for them. Instead, they're thriving with upscale specialty products — growing, processing, packaging and advertising their own goods. Smart move: While prices of agricultural products have been flat, in real dollars, since the 1950s, those of packaged goods have doubled. Selling finished products lets entrepreneurs reap higher margins from limited acreage. More important, it lets them build a business by making something they're passionate about on land they love.
http://stevequayle.com/News.alert/04_Money/041105.family.farm.html
The Nevada Jobs Machine
A low-tax environment is equating to hot employment in the desert.
By Greg Kaza
Are tax rates a factor in job growth and economic development? Nevada, which does not levy a state corporate or individual income tax, has recorded the highest percentage employment growth in the U.S. for the second consecutive year. Coincidence?
Total Nevada nonfarm payroll employment expanded 4.8 percent in 2004, according to data recently released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. And the expansion is heating up in Nevada. Last year’s blistering employment growth was actually higher than in 2003 when Nevada’s labor market led the nation at 3.9 percent.
Capital investment isn’t fleeing to Nevada because of all that water in the desert. Factors influencing any state’s robust economic development include the rule of law, infrastructure, presence of a skilled work force, consistent regulatory policy, access to markets, and favorable tax rates.
Nevada’s lack of a state corporate or individual income tax has attracted capital from states like California, Arkansas, and Michigan. California has a top corporate rate of 8.84 percent and an individual rate of 9.3 percent — rates that are noticeably higher than the state’s desert neighbor. The Golden State’s labor market expanded at a much lower rate of 1.1 percent in 2004. Tax rates in Arkansas on capital investment are among the highest in the South. That state’s job-creation rate barely budged last year while the U.S. economy created 2.2 million jobs.
Michigan has an abundance of water and natural resources — and a crippling “single business tax” levied by a political class that doesn’t get it. It is also the only state to record net job losses for 4 consecutive years (2001-04). (Final data for Ohio will not be available until March.)
Overall, Arkansas and Michigan were among states with the worst job-creation records in 2004.
Nevada, meanwhile, was among the 10 states that began 2004 with the most business-friendly (and, hence, job-producing) tax systems, according to the nonprofit Tax Foundation in Washington, D.C. Another business-friendly state without a corporate income tax — Washington — ranked sixth in job creation at 2.4 percent.
By contrast, Arkansas was among the 10 states with the least hospitable business-tax climates, and ranked 43rd in the Tax Foundation survey, which ranked Michigan 36th and California 38th.
The Tax Foundation found that the worst state tax codes tend to feature complex, multi-rate corporate and individual income taxes with above-average tax rates; above-average sales-tax rates that don’t exempt business-to-business purchases; complex, high-rate unemployment tax systems; and high overall state tax collections with few tax or expenditure controls.
Nevada’s simplified tax code, however, is a proven job-producing winner. Nevada’s labor market has been so strong in recent decades that the “metropolitan statistical areas” (MSAs) of Las Vegas and Reno have actually recorded net new jobs in periods of recession. Employment typically declines when the economy contracts, yet jobs were added in Las Vegas during the recessions of 1980 and 1990-91, and in Reno during the 2001 recession. Only a small percentage of MSAs nationwide record employment growth during recessions.
A veritable job-creation machine has existed in No Tax Nevada for a long time. Nevada’s economic growth rate of 12 percent has led all 50 states since the last recession ended in 2001. Only one state — Florida — recorded more new jobs (379,000) than Nevada (124,000) in the period. Nevada also led the U.S. in job creation (68 percent) in the record 10-year expansion of 1991 to 2001.
Are tax rates a factor in job growth and economic development? Yes, indeed. Nevada’s yet another case in point.
— Greg Kaza is executive director of the Arkansas Policy Foundation, an economic research organization based in Little Rock.
http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_comment/kaza200502040831.asp
A New Wrinkle in Workforce
The number of employed workers 75 and older grew from 669,000 in 1994 to just under 1 million last year, according to Labor Department statistics. Those numbers will increase as the large baby boom generation ages. "It's really like a big steamroller that's coming," said Martin Rome, spokesman for Experience Works, a Washington, D.C.-based group that advocates employment opportunities for seniors. For many of those older seniors, work is not a choice but a necessity.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/la-me-oldworker24feb24%2C0%2C929308.story?coll=sfla-business-headlines
Highest Wages in East, Lowest in South
Americans have been migrating south and west for decades, but it appears they've been leaving some high-paying jobs behind. While there are many pockets of wealth in the South and West, the states with the highest wage earners line the East Coast, according to Census data released Tuesday. Connecticut, with a median household income of $56,409, supplanted New Jersey as the country's highest wage state in 2003, the most recent year available. New Jersey slid to second, at $56,356, followed by Maryland, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Mississippi had the lowest median income, at $32,397. West Virginia, Arkansas, Louisiana and Montana rounded out the bottom five. The median household income for the nation was $43,318. More at http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/29/D8E6CJLG0.html
10 Highest, Lowest State Median Incomes
The states with the 10 highest and 10 lowest median incomes, and the U.S. median income.
Top 10
State Median income
Conn. $56,409
N.J. 56,356
Md. 54,302
Mass. 52,713
N.H. 52,409
Alaska 52,391
Minn. 50,750
Va. 50,028
Colo. 49,248
Del. 48,770
Bottom 10
State Median income
Tenn. $37,925
Ky. 36,663
Ala. 36,131
Okla. 35,634
N.M. 35,091
Mont. 34,449
La. 33,792
Ark. 33,445
W.Va. 32,967
Miss. 32,397
Nation $43,318
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/29/D8E6BNT06.html
20 Highest, Lowest Incomes by County
Top 20
County Median income
Los Alamos County, N.M. $93,089
Douglas County, Colo. 92,732
Loudoun County, Va. 89,890
Hunterdon County, N.J. 84,016
Fairfax County, Va. 82,481
Hamilton County, Ind. 80,691
Morris County, N.J. 79,977
Howard County, Md. 79,455
Falls Church, Va. (city) 79,232
Somerset County, N.J. 77,988
Montgomery County, Md. 76,546
Williamson County, Tenn. 75,986
Stafford County, Va. 75,456
Fayette County, Ga. 74,320
Collin County, Texas 74,136
Carver County, Minn. 74,127
Scott County, Minn. 74,001
Delaware County, Ohio 73,273
Forsyth County, Ga. 72,945
Prince William County, Va. 72,897
Bottom 20
County Median income
Bullock County, Ala. $20,808
McCreary County, Ky. 20,780
Todd County, S.D. 20,780
Perry County, Ala. 20,555
Sumter County, Ala. 20,520
East Carroll Parish, La. 20,356
Wolfe County, Ky. 20,249
Humphreys County, Miss. 20,117
Issaquena County, Miss. 19,783
Jefferson County, Miss. 19,754
Wilcox County, Ala. 19,524
Hancock County, Tenn. 19,228
Starr County, Texas 19,127
Holmes County, Miss. 19,057
Clay County, Ky. 18,724
Zavala County, Texas 18,553
McDowell County, W. Va. 18,344
Ziebach County, S.D. 17,753
Owsley County, Ky. 17,344
Buffalo County, S.D. 17,003
Falls Church, Va. is calculated separately because it is not part of a county.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/29/D8E6BOPG0.html
Most Dangerous Jobs in America 2005-2006
The most dangerous professions are: Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, mining, transportation and warehousing, construction,utilities, wholesale trade, professional and business services, other services (excluding public administration), manufacturing, government.-Forbes
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10725454/
New Job Opportunities in America
Fifty years ago, a third of U.S. employees worked in factories, making everything from clothing to lipstick to cars. Today, a little more than one-tenth of the nation's 131 million workers are employed by manufacturing firms. Four-fifths are in services! Since the beginning of 2000 (when GWB-Cheney came into office), more than 1.9 million factory jobs have been cut.-Judith Moriarty
http://www.rense.com/general69/newjob.htm
Best Companies to Work For in 2006
Best Employers in Your State
Best Benefits
Top Paying Companies
All of these and more at http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/
America’s Job Hot Spots 2005-2006
Big-Cities' Rankings:
The top 10 performers of the 200 largest metros:
1. Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, Fla.
2. Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Fla.
3. Naples-Marco Island, Fla.
4. McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas
5. Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, Fla.
6. Orlando-Kissimmee, Fla.
7. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-Va.-Md.-W.Va.
8. Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Ark.-Mo.
9. Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, Fla.
10. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Ca.
Thanks to the presence of the federal government and a dramatic increase in the growth of technology firms in the region, the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area is the highest-ranked of America's largest 10 cities, at No. 7, followed by Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif. at No. 10 and Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, Ariz. at No. 15.
Small-Cities' Rankings:
In what amounts to a clean sweep, another Florida metro -- Fort Walton Beach-Crestview-Destin -- also ranked No. 1 on the Institute's separate listing of America's smallest 179 metros, followed by Bend, Ore. (2), and Prescott, Ariz. (3).
1. Fort Walton Beach-Crestview-Destin, Fla.
2. Bend, Ore.
3. Prescott, Ariz.
4. Panama City-Lynn Haven, Fla.
5. St. George, Utah
6. Madera, Calif.
7. Kennewick-Richland-Pasco, Wash.
8. Logan, Utah-Idaho
9. Yuma, Ariz.
10. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
More at
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