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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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