32,000 new workers = ?

The news is out, U.S. employers added 32,000 to payrolls in July.

Let's do a little back-of-the-envelope calculation and focus on mid-sized states. Ones with a population between 4 and 6 million. Those states are:

• Alabama
• Arizona
• Colorado
• Kentucky
• Louisana
• Maryland
• Minnesota
• Missouri
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Washington
• Wisconsin

Interesting that several are battleground states.

Each state has about 1.6% of the population (5 mil/300 mil) so of those 32,000 jobs, each state got 513 jobs in the month of July. That's really small.

posted by Quiddity at 8/06/2004 06:51:00 AM