A Horrible Graph of Connecticut’s Lack of Job Growth

Job Growth By State Since The "End" of the Reession

Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary (BLS.gov)

If you click on the graph to the right and expand or zoom in on Connecticut you can barely see a tiny bit of blue.  That blue represents job growth since the MAX jobs lost point during the 2007 Recession as of this past May 2011.  Note it’s the 2007 Recession and we are now obviously in 2011.  The top of the blue is the worst unemployment rate and the top of the red is where we are as of May this year.  Keep zooming in, I assure you there is SOME blue in the Connecticut bar, (yes a pun).

Also note only one state is worse in job growth.  Louisiana.

If you google.com “companies leaving Connecticut” it returns: 59,100,000 results in (0.10 seconds) including a link for this resource guide on everything you need to know, leavingconnecticut.com

To this I add, how could the housing market in Connecticut ever recover if we don’t improve our job growth?