48 out of 50 States Have Lost Jobs since 2009 Stimulus Law

May 21, 2010

While the President went to Ohio Monday and repeatedly claimed his trillion-dollar 2009 stimulus plan was “the right thing to do,” it’s hard to tell that from looking at the job situation across the U.S. According to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Labor, and the chart below, through April 2010 a total of 48 out of 50 States had seen net job losses since the President signed the Democrats’ stimulus plan into law in February 2009. The data show that only Alaska, North Dakota and the District of Columbia have seen net job creation since then. And (other than the perhaps predictable exception of D.C.) even those States that have seen some increases in jobs are still well short of the growth the White House originally forecast. What is clear is that 2.7 million more jobs have been eliminated since Democrats’ stimulus, unemployment rose to 9.9 percent instead of falling to 7.4 percent as Democrats predicted, and 15 million Americans – an all-time record for the month of April – are currently unemployed.

To see how the Democrats’ stimulus has failed your state, see the table below.

State	Administration Projection of Change in Jobs Through December 2010	Actual Change in Jobs Through April 2010
Alabama	+52,000	-49,600
Alaska	+8,000	+2,600
Arizona	+70,000	-79,400
Arkansas	+31,000	-20,400
California	+396,000	-534,900
Colorado	+59,000	-89,300
Connecticut	+41,000	-38,600
Delaware	+11,000	-10,600
District of Columbia	+12,000	+8,400
Florida	+206,000	-188,100
Georgia	+106,000	-125,600
Hawaii	+15,000	-10,300
Idaho	+17,000	-17,800
Illinois	+148,000	-163,100
Indiana	+75,000	-37,700
Iowa	+37,000	-26,700
Kansas	+33,000	-36,800
Kentucky	+48,000	-16,800
Louisiana	+50,000	-35,000
Maine	+15,000	-17,500
Maryland	+66,000	-30,400
Massachusetts	+79,000	-52,000
Michigan	+109,000	-110,600
Minnesota	+66,000	-51,300
Mississippi	+30,000	-26,900
Missouri	+69,000	-49,100
Montana	+11,000	-7,300
Nebraska	+23,000	-12,300
Nevada	+34,000	-66,600
New Hampshire	+16,000	-9,000
New Jersey	+100,000	-76,600
New Mexico	+22,000	-23,900
New York	+215,000	-107,600
North Carolina	+105,000	-81,600
North Dakota	+8,000	+3,500
Ohio	+133,000	-138,300
Oklahoma	+40,000	-44,700
Oregon	+44,000	-49,600
Pennsylvania	+143,000	-86,300
Rhode Island	+12,000	-18,600
South Carolina	+50,000	-26,900
South Dakota	+10,000	-5,000
Tennessee	+70,000	-66,600
Texas	+269,000	-144,800
Utah	+32,000	-23,100
Vermont	+8,000	-7,200
Virginia	+93,000	-46,200
Washington	+75,000	-79,500
West Virginia	+20,000	-14,300
Wisconsin	+70,000	-75,400
Wyoming	+8,000	-10,100

Source: Administration February 2009 projection and Ways and Means staff calculations based on Department of Labor data.

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