No guarantee of finding work out of state
By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee
Escape isn’t easy.
As California buckled under layoffs and hiring freezes last year, tens of thousands of residents saw lower unemployment rates in other states and decided to move.
Many couldn’t find jobs near their new homes either. The unemployment rate in 2010 among former Californians who had left the state during the previous 12 months was 19 percent, according to a Bee analysis of new U.S. census data. By comparison, the unemployment rate in the state they left behind was 12 percent.
Those figures partly reflect the dismal job markets in other places. Moving from California to Nevada, which has the nation’s highest unemployment rate, isn’t the safest bet, but 30,000 people tried it anyway last year.
Texas looked safer. It has added roughly 150,000 jobs since the start of the recession, and 50,000 Californians moved there last year, a higher number than moved to any other state.
But 15 percent of those former Californians couldn’t find jobs when they got to Texas, according to The Bee analysis.
The statewide unemployment rate in Texas is 8.1 percent – about half a percentage point better than the national average, but still high by historical standards.The contradiction in Texas – more jobs but relatively higher unemployment – is largely due to movers, particularly from California. More than 160,000 Californians have moved to Texas since the start of the recession.
“We have produced lots of jobs but, despite that, our unemployment rate is about as high as everywhere else,” said Daniel Hamermesh, professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin. “The reason is simple: We attract migrants.”
cheaper to live out ca.
What good are high taxes when they keep burning them on illegals.
You mean there are no guarantees in life? Why, that’s not fair!
This is the way the world has always been. Ask the Okies from the Dustbowl a couple of generations back. And the Irish coming to America from their homeland and the famine before that. It’s a tough world. Be tougher and more resourceful than your competition. Survival of the fittest.
I couldnt agree with you more dogwoman. i dont think the problem is not finding work it is not wanting to work as hard as needed to fill the jobs that are available. Or just not having any real skills that are usefull.
Does anyone put much stock in research from the Sacramento Bee.
The Bee has a well earned reputation as liberal propaganda, short on facts and long on bias.
Why do you look for biased reporting to reprint here?