Thursday, February 28, 2013
America's Red State Growth Corridors - WSJ.com
Some areas of the country are thriving as they do the opposite of what the Obama administration is pushing.
Time will tell if it amounts to changing anything...
Time will tell if it amounts to changing anything...
In his Wall Street Journal article, Joel Kotkin includes this:
"Between 2001 and 2011, job growth in the Great Plains, the Intermountain West and the Third Coast was between 7% and 8%—nearly 10 times the job growth rate for the rest of the country. Only the Southeastern industrial belt tracked close to the national average.
Historically, these regions were little more than resource colonies or low-wage labor sites for richer, more technically advanced areas. By promoting policies that encourage enterprise and spark economic growth, they're catching up.
Such policies have been pursued not only by Republicans but also by Democrats who don't share their national party's notion that business should serve as a cash cow to fund ever more expensive social-welfare, cultural or environmental programs."
