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Pawlenty
s Tenure Witnessed State Unemployment Rate Increase From 4.6% To 7.1%.
According to Minnesota PublicRadio,
Unemployment Rate: January 2003: Minnesota
s unemployment rate was 4.6%... November 2010: Minnesota
sunemployment rate was 7.1%.
[Minnesota Public Radio, 12/22/10 ]
Minnesota
s Poverty Rate In 2003 Was About 5.5%.
According to Minnesota Public Radio,
New Hampshire andMinnesota have the country
s lowest poverty rates. About five and half percent of the two states populations are officially poor.
[ Minnesota Public Radio, 9/26/03 ]
Minnesota
s Poverty Rate In 2009 Was 11%.
According to the Minnesota Budget Project,
The overall percentage of Minnesotans living in poverty rose to 11 percent in 2009,a significant increase from pre-recession levels. Some people inMinnesota saw a particularly strong increase in poverty between 2007 and 2009, including Latinos (four percentage pointincrease), children (two percentage point increase) and white non-Hispanics (one percentage point increase). Remember, in2009, a family of three would have had to earn less than$18,300to be considered living in poverty
.
[Minnesota Budget Project,9/28/10 ]
Minnesota
s Bankruptcy Levels Climbed To Highest Level In A Decade In 2010.
According to the St. Paul PioneerPress,
Amid stubborn unemployment levels and a tepid economic recovery, bankruptcy court filings are at their highest levelin a decade. In Minnesota, 2010 bankruptcy filings through the end of May were up 11.6 percent from a year earlier, totaling 9,596 -- the highest level in 10 years of recorded data. Nationally, the first six months of 2010 showed a 14 percent increaseover last year
s levels, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute Despite the grim statistics for the first part of this
year, the May figure of 1,927 bankruptcy filings in Minnesota was the second month in a row to show a month-to-monthdecline. The high-water mark of 2,219 came in March -- the highest monthly total in the state since October 2005, when alooming change in bankruptcy laws prompted many people to file.
[St. Paul Pioneer Press, 7/6/10
