{"id":2032,"date":"2010-05-03T13:51:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T17:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2010-05-03T13:51:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T17:51:50","slug":"recession-deepening-in-american-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/05\/03\/recession-deepening-in-american-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Recession deepening in American West?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics of New York&#8217;s tax-and-regulation system often complain that we&#8217;re driving people and businesses out of state.<\/p>\n<p>But a new survey of the most economically stressed counties, conducted by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100503\/ap_on_bi_ge\/us_stress_map_list\">the Associated Press<\/a>, found that an astonishing 12 out of 20 hardest-hit areas are in California.<\/p>\n<p>In Imperial County, unemployment tops 30%. Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>Three more extremely depressed counties were in the state of Nevada, along with one more in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>That means 16 out of 20 of the worst-hit areas are in the far West &#8212; not the Northeastern or Great Lakes rust belts.<\/p>\n<p>The only other US state to have three counties in the &#8220;bottom 20&#8221; list was Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of the states with counties boasting the lowest unemployment were in the Midwest, with Kansas and Oklahoma looking particularly strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics of New York&#8217;s tax-and-regulation system often complain that we&#8217;re driving people and businesses out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}