Cities Where the Job Outlook Is Improving

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Where are the jobs referred to numerous times in Texas during the debates ?
Austin is the only city ?

kate of TX 4:13AM February 23, 2012

The figures for this are misleading in some respects with regards to St.Louis. The part that is unmentioned is that in May of 2011, unemployment across the metro was at 8.6%... so unemployment is actually rising again.

Unemployed outside St.Louis of IL 1:21AM September 04, 2011

This trendy city (Portland, Oregon) knows how to play the numbers. As a city that went 80% in favor of Obama and 19% for McCain, a lot of tax dollars went this way for a lot of temp employment in construction of buildings, painting roads, various city projects, 'study' projects, an upcoming light-rail extension that just started, some 'green' companies that get a lot of big public funding, east coast start-ups moving here with jobs already taken by out-of-staters but 'adds' jobs by definition. This city is a top-down operation. It is artificial, still controlled by a 'cartel' of sorts. Otherwise, the view from shoes on the ground: people have moved out. Start-ups, mom-pops, boutique shops, service firms are still closing down regularly (they don't count as part of 'unemployment' by the way b/c business owners do not collect unemployment), Japanese corporate interests and Korean stores have long gone, a few big-box retailers are not renewing their leases. Armed robberies are on the rise, no 9mm, I'm talkin 12-gauges and uzis. These are facts, not doom & gloom. This is stuff that has happened here in sweet lovely Portland 2010-2011 where our leaders' pile never stinks.

Tyler of OR 8:03PM August 31, 2011

The subject of jobs and the unemployment rate always comes up around election time. I find it the most volatile issue in politics right up there with the stock market and "entitlements" and the deficit! When will the politicians wake up and make the country attractive to the marketplace so entrepreneurs can show a profit and increase manpower. Over taxation and regulation with no protection from unfair foreign practices has and will continue to decimate our ability to compete globally. I.E. The electronics stores that opened with a U. S. name over the door in China, with no affiliation with the U.S. company! What are our foreign trade officials doing? When will the illegals be stopped at the border and prevented from taken our jobs? Our present politicians are all talk and no action! But then we have this same problem every election, and from BOTH parties! The Latino VOTE guarentees that they will get their way with our politicians pandering to their every whim to assure their votes.

Lee Hansen of MI 3:16PM August 12, 2011