Archive for January, 2009

The Boston Globe reports on a Moody’s study that estimates that Massachusetts will receive about $11 billion from 2/3 of the enormous borrow-and-spend bill that President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress majority is pushing. The $11 billion would “would save or create 94,560 jobs in Massachusetts.” That’s weak. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick claims that [...]

Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the second quarter 2008 numbers for “establishments, employment, and wages” in the 335 largest counties. Here are the numbers for the relevant counties in Massachusetts: County Est. Empl. %ch. Rank Wage %ch. Rank Barnstable 9.2 101.4 -1.6 259 725 2.5 166 Bristol 15.5 221.4 -1.4 246 773 2.4 [...]

Metropolitan unemployment rates in Massachusetts in November 2008. These rates are not seasonally adjusted. MSA Nov2008 Oct2008 Nov2007 Barnstable Town 6.5 5.0 4.2 Boston-Cambridge-Quincy 5.0 4.6 3.6 Leominster-Fitchburg-Gardner 7.1 6.4 4.7 New Bedford 7.9 7.3 5.5 Pittsfield 5.2 4.4 3.5 Springfield 6.2 5.6 4.4 Worcester 5.9 5.4 4.2 What’s this Boston-Cambridge-Quincy? Unemployment rates in all [...]

Arizona Cardinals iced their Wild Card play-off victory over the visiting Atlanta Falcons when tight end Stephen Spach caught a third-down-and-16 pass for 23 yards and a new set of downs that allowed the Cardinals to kneel out the clock. The Cardinals picked up Spach in late October and he quickly became a regular on [...]