Economy
The Uneven U.S. Jobs Recovery Is Even Clearer When Tracked Per Capita
California added 900,000 new jobs during the recovery, but they were spread over the state's 38 million residents.
Today, there’s definitely some good news in the U.S. economy. The recovery is, by nearly every definition, well underway, and new jobs are being created across the country. But the bad news is that the recovery remains highly uneven, in terms of both the kinds of jobs that have reappeared and their locations. The economy hasn’t replaced many of the once well-paying, mid-skill blue collar jobs it lost, and there’s been far greater growth in low-wage jobs and high-wage jobs.
Even more, the recovery has been geographically uneven. We’ve heard how some states have generated a disproportionate number of new jobs, and how these good and bad jobs are distributed irregularly across the country.