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Via Matt Yglesias, the Center for American Progress has a map showing where the stimulus money would end up. "Wow," I said to my self, "that's neat. But wouldn't per-capita figures be more interesting?" They would, and thankfully the internet makes producing those figures quite easy:
Compare that map to this one from the WSJ (via Barry Ritholtz) showing the change in unemployment over the past year:
Many thanks to CAP for publishing their underlying data.
COMMENTS (7)
Dear Wyoming,
Explain yourself.
Thanks,
99% of the rest of the country.
Posted by: Byrd | January 29, 2009 11:29 AM
Dear 99% of the rest of the country,
Go fuck yourself.
Thanks,
Dick Cheney
Posted by: mkd | January 29, 2009 11:38 AM
My theory is that there's a certain fixed cost to distributing money. Like, a state has to have a Medicaid office, and it can only get so small. So Wyoming and North Dakota and Montana and Vermont enjoy fewer economies of scale.
Posted by: Nicholas Beaudrot | January 29, 2009 12:28 PM
The Senate should swing some of the Wyoming money into Maine to buy off those Olympia Snowe/Susan Collins votes.
Posted by: Spike | January 29, 2009 12:37 PM
Where are Alaska & Hawaii?
Posted by: jlh | January 29, 2009 12:53 PM
Because they have such different costs of living, I excluded them. I know that's sort of cheating, but it mucks up the scale of the map ... everything else ends up looking average, except maybe New York and Wyoming.
Alaska is far and away the highest. Hawaii is actually not that high, around Indiana. No clue why this is.
Posted by: Nicholas Beaudrot | January 29, 2009 1:07 PM
And no one is going to correlate North Carolina's nation-high rise in unemployment with their nation-low rate of unionization?
Posted by: Matvey | January 29, 2009 7:58 PM