{"id":25932,"date":"2021-11-22T08:10:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T13:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=25932"},"modified":"2021-11-22T08:13:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T13:13:44","slug":"nebraska-just-posted-the-lowest-unemployment-ever-recorded-guess-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25932\/nebraska-just-posted-the-lowest-unemployment-ever-recorded-guess-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska Just Posted the Lowest Unemployment Ever Recorded.  Guess Why."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some impressive and instructive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/at-1-9-nebraska-now-has-the-lowest-unemployment-rate-of-any-state-ever-11637421536\">news<\/a>, the state of Nebraska just claimed the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded.\u00a0 The likely reason shouldn&#8217;t surprise anyone:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nebraska\u2019s jobless rate tends to run below the national rate. Economists cite a combination of factors that have kept joblessness in the state well below the U.S. average from the onset of the pandemic. Nebraska had fewer government-imposed restrictions on business, helping it avoid steep job losses some states experienced earlier in the pandemic.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At some point, perhaps other more stubbornly leftist states will catch on before every one of their residents and businesses <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/07\/tesla-to-move-headquarters-to-texas-elon-musk-says\/\">flees<\/a> to more economically hospitable states with fewer regulations, lower taxes and less government generally.\u00a0 But don&#8217;t hold your breath just yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some impressive and instructive news, the state of Nebraska just claimed the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded.\u00a0 The likely reason shouldn&#8217;t surprise anyone: &nbsp; Nebraska\u2019s jobless rate tends to run below the national rate. Economists cite a combination of factors that have kept joblessness in the state well below the U.S. average from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,2132,27,18],"class_list":["post-25932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-economy","tag-employment","tag-jobs","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25934,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25932\/revisions\/25934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}