The stimulus is working -- in DC and Baltimore!
Via Derek Thompson and Ryan Avent is this revealing chart, which shows job openings per capita. The No. 1 place for job openings: Washington. No 2 (Hidden behind the DC bubble): Baltimore. The stimulus is working great -- at least within an 80-mile radius from output valve of the stimulus plumbing! I can't find out where the data came from. (Help-wanted statistics are easy to publish but hard to do correctly.) But they tell an interesting story.
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I'm gonna beg to differ. As I just sat in Rent Court in Baltimore County on Tuesday the 21st and watched 3,250 cases heard in one day, in one court. This was a record and Rent Court is held once a week. It was standing room only and unemployment played a key role. Been a landlord over 30 years...bad as I've seen! Recovery...hardly!
Posted by: jack cowart | July 23, 2009 12:01 PM