Interesting Statistics

Here is an interesting website I found. It is the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

This link will take you to an inflation calculator, where you will find that in the year I was born, a person could live off of less than $200/week as easily as someone making $1000/week today. When I graduated high school, I could have lived just as easily off of less than $600/week.

This link will take you to the unemployment statistics, broken down by state. For a depressing experience, try setting it to January of 2008 and then forward it one month at a time.

If you look around a little, you will find a few good statistics, at least if you live in the midwestern states. For example, a few of these states have refused to get depressed, and some are even starting to show job growth.

Interestingly (just as a side note, of course), here is a link to a list of states that have Right-to-Work laws. Hmmmmm.