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    Right To Work Statistics - Higher Income! | 5 comments (5 topical, 0 hidden)
    I am not discussing the merits of RTW (none / 0) (#4)
    by mm9 on Tue Jun 14, 2011 at 04:57:18 AM EST
    The purpose of this post is to express my objection to the idea that RTW states typically enjoy higher Personal Income per Capita than non RTW states. First of all, if you are going to do a serious statistical analysis, you need to include all RTW states. As I was unable to find your data set, I used data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (link). If we do this, we see the following:

    1 (6). Wyoming: $47851
    2 (7). Virginia: $44762
    3 (18). North Dakota: $40596
    4 (21). Kansas: $39737
    5 (22). Nebraska: $39557
    6 (23). Texas: $39493
    7 (24). Florida: $39272
    8 (25). South Dakota: $38865
    9 (26). Louisiana: $38446
    10 (28). Iowa: $38281
    11 (31). Nevada: $36997
    12 (33). Oklahoma: $36421
    13 (35). North Carolina: $35638
    14 (37). Georgia: $35490
    15 (39). Tennessee: $35307
    16 (40). Arizona: $34999
    17 (42). Alabama: $33945
    18 (45). South Carolina: $33163
    19 (46). Arkansas: $33150
    20 (48). Utah: $32595
    21 (49). Idaho: $32257
    22 (50). Mississippi: $31186

    Median: $36709
    Average: $37182
    RTW States Income Per Capita: $37538

    Michigan (36th overall): $35597
    Non RTW States (incl Michigan) Income Per Capita: $42635
    United States Income Per Capita: $40584

    Conclusions:

    1. 13 of 22 RTW states have a higher income per capita than Michigan does.
    2. The income per capita in RTW states is higher than Michigan's.
    3. 22 of the other 27 non RTW states have a higher income per capita than Michigan does and the income per capita in non RTW states as a whole is much larger than Michigan's.
    4. The income per capita in non-RTW states is higher than the income per capita in RTW states.

    FWIW, I don't think income per capita is the logical metric to use here anyway. And once again, I will iterate that I have no interest in discussing the merits of RTW legislation. I am simply posting what I feel is an unbiased look at how RTW states compare to both Michigan and the rest of the country with regards to the metric chosen by Mr. Gillman. I would imagine that other metrics, such as median household income, average household income, etc. would look more kindly on RTW states. However, I have spent a couple hours putting this together and am not particularly inclined to do so for another whole data set. If anyone else is, I would be most interested in the results.

    • Thank you. by JGillman, 06/14/2011 06:55:50 AM EST (none / 0)

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