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Nevada Leads the Way in National Unemployment at 28.2 Percent

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6 months ago

May 27, 2020

Wolf Richter of Wolf Street released a piece on May 22, 2020 highlighting national unemployment statistics.

According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rates for states in April ranged from “7.9% in Connecticut to a catastrophic 28.2% in Nevada.”

Richter noted that in Nevada’s case “the casinos and shows and hotels and everything that comes along with them have been put on ice, and people in the US and from around the world aren’t traveling to Nevada anymore to gamble.”

Additionally, Hawaii, another with a sizeable tourist industry, saw its unemployment rate skyrocket from 2.6 percent in March to 22.3 percent in April.

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Richter outline what the unemployment scenario looked like in other states:

The unemployment rates of the big four states – they account for one-third of the total US population – are in the same double-digit middle-of-road-ish horrible range, middle-of-road within the spectrum from 7.9% to 28.2%, with unemployment rates of 12.8% in Texas, 12.9% in Florida, 14.5% in New York, and 15.5% in California.

The financial blogger posted a table showing the unemployment rates for each state in April (second column), along with the right by the rates of “partial-Covid” March (third column) and pre-Wuhan virus February (fourth column). The states are ordered from the lowest unemployment rate to the highest unemployment rate.

The state’s population (according to census 2019 estimates), which is stated in millions, is represented in the fifth column on the right.

State	Apr	Mar	Feb	Pop.
Connecticut	7.9	3.7	3.8	3.6
Minnesota	8.1	3.1	3.1	5.6
Nebraska	8.3	4.2	2.9	1.9
North Dakota	8.5	2.2	3.6	0.8
Wyoming	9.2	3.7	3.5	0.6
Utah	9.7	3.6	3.5	3.2
Missouri	9.7	4.5	3.5	6.1
Maryland	9.9	3.3	3.3	6.0
South Dakota	10.2	3.3	2.5	0.9
Arkansas	10.2	4.8	3.5	3.0
Iowa	10.2	3.7	2.8	3.2
Maine	10.6	3.2	3.2	1.3
Virginia	10.6	3.3	2.4	8.5
Kansas	11.2	3.1	3.1	2.9
Montana	11.3	3.5	3.5	1.1
New Mexico	11.3	5.9	4.8	2.1
Colorado	11.3	4.5	2.5	5.8
Idaho	11.5	2.6	2.7	1.8
Georgia	11.9	4.2	3.1	10.6
South Carolina	12.1	2.6	3.4	5.1
North Carolina	12.2	4.4	3.4	10.5
Arizona	12.6	5.5	4.5	7.3
Texas	12.8	4.7	3.4	29.0
Alaska	12.9	5.6	5.8	0.7
Alabama	12.9	3.5	2.7	4.9
Florida	12.9	4.3	2.8	21.5
Oklahoma	13.7	3.1	4.1	4.0
Wisconsin	14.1	3.4	4.9	5.8
Oregon	14.2	3.3	3.2	4.2
Delaware	14.3	5.1	3.9	1.0
Louisiana	14.5	6.9	5.2	4.6
New York	14.5	4.5	3.7	19.5
Tennessee	14.7	3.5	3.3	6.8
Massachusetts	15.1	2.9	2.8	6.9
Pennsylvania	15.1	6.0	3.3	12.8
West Virginia	15.2	6.1	2.6	1.8
New Jersey	15.3	3.8	3.8	8.9
Mississippi	15.4	5.3	5.4	3.0
Kentucky	15.4	5.8	4.2	4.5
Washington	15.4	5.1	2.6	7.6
California	15.5	5.3	3.9	39.5
Vermont	15.6	3.2	2.5	0.6
New Hampshire	16.3	2.6	2.6	1.4
Illinois	16.4	4.6	3.4	12.7
Ohio	16.8	5.5	2.2	11.7
Indiana	16.9	3.2	3.1	6.7
Rhode Island	17.0	4.6	4.7	1.1
Hawaii	22.3	2.6	2.7	1.4
Michigan	22.7	4.1	3.6	10.0
Nevada	28.2	6.3	3.6	3.1

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Jon Ossoff’s Endorsement by Giffords Proves He is an Anti-Gun Stooge

Georgia Voters Who Care About the Second Amendment Should Reject Both Democrat Candidates

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12 hours ago

Dec 4, 2020

Jose Nino

Now that former Vice President Joe Biden is the presumptive president-elect, conservatives are busy re-grouping.

Although the presidential election appears to be sorted out, electors still have to cast their ballots on December 14. On top of that, there’s still unsettled business in Georgia.

While a 50-50 split by no means guarantees that gun control will be passed at will, this puts Democrats one step closer towards implementing their anti-gun fantasies.

The case for Perdue is pretty simple. He’s a solid immigration patriot and a staunch Second Amendment supporter. He can be counted on to keep the Left in check.

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Ossoff is currently endorsed by Giffords, one of the fastest growing civilian disarmament lobbies in America. This organization was founded by former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and has been increasingly active in promoting anti-Second Amendment politicians over the last few years.

Giffords’ endorsement of Ossoff makes sense. According to Ossoff’s platform, he plans on prohibiting the sales of semiautomatic rifles and “high capacity” magazines. Not to mention, he wants to check off every other item on the gun grabber checkbox by supporting red flag confiscation orders, universal background checks, tighten the so-called “gun show loophole”, and implement licensing for semiautomatic rifles and handguns that millions of Americans already own.

Ossoff’s anti-gun endorsement list is quite diverse. AWR Hawkins of Breitbart News called attention to the fact that “Ossoff is also endorsed by the Mike Bloomberg-founded gun control group, Everytown for Gun Safety. He is also endorsed by Everytown’s subsidiary gun control group, Moms Demand Action.”

When Gabby Giffords’ organization gave Ossoff their endorsement, they were very explicit about the intention behind endorsing Ossoff, revealing that they are “working to unseat an NRA-backed incumbent.”

An Ossoff victory, along with Raphael Warnock winning his race against Kelly Loeffler, would be big victories for Gun Control Inc. The anti-gun lobby is hungry and they’ll need a Senate majority in order to expand federal gun control.

January 5, 2021 is the pivotal date that will determine the balance of the U.S. Senate. Georgia voters have clear choices in Perdue and Loeffler. A vote for Ossoff and Warnock is a green light for Second Amendment infringements.