Jack Olson
2009-05-01 13:57:55
Richard argues that Ohio has been losing population not because of its high taxes but high unemployment and it is true that Ohio’s unemployment rate of 6.9% is higher than that of, say, Texas’s 5.3%. One can well understand why California is losing population with its unemployment rate of 8%.
Yet, New York has an unemployment rate of only 5.9%, not much more than Texas. (Bureau of Labor Statistics). Then why would New York’s population grow only 0.1% from 2006-2007 while Texas’s population grew by 2.1%? Why such a difference in population growth without a commensurate difference in unemployment, if employment drives population gain or loss?
