Being glued to Andrew Sullivan's blog the last couple of days I have been reading a lot of the other content on The Atlantic's website including a state by state examination of the recession. Today the correspondent reported on my home state of West Virginia. While the article discusses the resilience of West Virginians, or the lack of money to actually loose in a recession, we have not been as resilient as the article states. Numerous West Virginian's have lost their jobs and been laid off from their jobs; furthermore, according to the WV State Journal, unemployment in West Virginia is at it's highest level in 15 years. Fortunately there are not many well paying white collar jobs to loose in this state and as the article says, "when you got nothing, you got nothing to loose."
One bright spot in the state has been Morgantown, which was featured in the WallStreet Journal, because the city is actually creating jobs. Another interesting fact about the article that I liked is the women discussing growing their own crops and canning their own vegetables as this is something we do in my own home.
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