Today our statistic is from Mitt Romney. Team Romney claims women have lost 92.3% of the jobs since Obama took office. U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner, acting as political pundit, calls Romney's new favorite statistic ridiculous.
First off Romney is right. Since Obama took office in January 2009, the below graph shows the total job losses by women as a percentage of the total job losses. As of March 2012, it is 92.3%.
With the New Hampshire primary coming round tomorrow, we're finally seeing a few solid articles worth reading. Some Journalists are digging deep into a few Republican candidates' background and economic philosophies. We pulled up a few articles worth your eyeballs to read in a sea of spin, polls and gotchas.
MI is still the home of the auto industry and dependent on them for its economic well being. From Gov. Granholm's state of the state:
... we will not concede the automotive industry to any other state or nation.
We are the state that put America on wheels – the state that put the “car” in NASCAR. There is no vision for Michigan’s new economy that does not include cars designed, engineered, and made in Michigan. The industry’s changing – but we in Michigan cannot – will not – abandon it. And we should not allow our government in Washington to abandon it either.
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