Taking Down Words has done some original reporting and has discovered that Indiana’s job creation over the past year was even more lackluster than previously thought. TDW noticed the feds had substantially (by about 7,000) revised down the number of jobs Indiana created in January and February 2006. TDW A friend of TDW placed a call to a BLS economist who stated that Indiana changed its estimate because it discovered a reporting error. So, between February 2005 and February 2006, about 12,000 new jobs have been created as opposed to 44,000 created during the last year of the Kernan administration (Feb. 2004 – Feb. 2005.) (The usual caveats apply as to how influential any government is in creating jobs.)
Thanks for the link, Doug, but I should let you know that a friend actually made the call to BLS. I got the info from him and followed up with the usual flay-and-splay.