Bobby Jindal’s Louisiana Losing 430 Jobs Per Day Louisiana Had 430 New Unemployed People Every Day In December
Bobby Jindal’s Louisiana Losing 430 Jobs Per Day Louisiana Had 430 New Unemployed People Every Day In December
On Friday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) announced that he would reject nearly $100 million in unemployment insurance funding from the federal government. Jindal said the state would only be accepting money to increase the unemployment insurance payments for those who currently qualify for unemployment insurance and would not accept federal funds to expand unemployment benefits.
So how many people would Jindal’s grand-standing policies affect? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of unemployed people in Louisiana spiked from 109,000 in November to 122,000 in December, an increase of over 13,000 people without jobs or 430 additional out of work people every day.
The estimate itself is conservative, as it relies on December 2008 (the most recent Louisiana employment data available) data and does not consider January’s higher unemployment numbers.
While Louisiana’s Lt. Gov., Mitch Landrieu (D), has already criticized Jindal for acting like “the spokesman for the national Republican Party,” rather than representing the interests of Louisiana, the state’s growing unemployment rate only underscores the Governor’s recklessness.
Since other conservative governors (like South Carolina’s Mark Sanford, whose state is losing approximately 830 jobs a day) are jumping on the Jindal band wagon and rejecting much needed stimulus funding, the Wonk Room has compiled a chart of how many new unemployed people there are each day in December in all 50 states.
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Perhaps this is a continuation of the effort to slow return of the poor to Louisiana after Katrina, and to further the gentrification of New Orleans. Heck of a job Piyush; sorry, Bobbie
February 24th, 2009 at 2:46 pmOn the Today Show, the Vice President referred to the daily job loss statistic for La. that you complied above as a retort to Gov. Jindal’s comments the night before. In an interview with Jindal immediately following, Jindal claimed that La. “was the only state in the nation to increase jobs.” WTF? Where is the disconnect?
February 25th, 2009 at 3:42 pmWhether the economy is up or down does not matter. The business that gives is the business of self employment. I advise my clients to pursue multiple streams of income. When one source of income dries up, already be drawing on 3-4 other sources of income.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:35 pmTry again. This time working with all the charts and relating the unemployment #’s with the growing work force. If you look past elementary mathmatics of one chart and look at the overall picture, jobs and employment in LA have actually increased…
February 26th, 2009 at 2:12 pmAccording to the Bureau Of Labor statistics page it went up from 112,500 to 116,350. Where did 109,000 to 122,000 come from. Did the data change? Why don’t they match? Please let me know as soon as you can. Thanks.
February 27th, 2009 at 4:53 pmi too am wondering about the november and december numbers given that the Labor Dept chart’s numbers have different figures…
Also, it seems odd that Jindal shuns federal aid considering most of the jobs created are construction jobs spurred by federal money following the hurricane.
March 2nd, 2009 at 4:38 pmSo he’s actually already getting exactly he kind of aid he opposes…