"Wes" wrote in message
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"Ed Huntress" wrote:

That's the dilemma. NYC has always been a magnet that sucks in the people
who have been cast off by other parts of the country. So now it's costing
them, at a time when no city can afford it.


Back in the late seventies just prior to discharge, a group of us short
timers were
assembled to listen to a lady from the South Carolina unemployment office
who showed us a
chart of what the various states paid in unemployment.

The northern states paid a lot more than South Carolina.

Wes

?? I'm not sure what that means. Was she talking about totals, or
per-capita? Did she take out the dirt farmers? Did she take out the people
who had given up and were living on 'possum bellies and poke salad? Did she
explain how long the period of unemployment compensation lasted in S.C.,
versus those "northern states"?

Did you get any sense that she was an objective reporter, just giving you
the facts, or that her salary was paid by the state of South Carolina, and
that she was trying to encourage you to move there, now that you had
developed vital skills and a tolerance for hardship required to live in a
low-income state ($5240 disposable income per capita in S.C., in 1978,
versus $8761 in CT, for example)? Do you think she felt that her audience
was sophisticated enough, skeptical enough, and skilled enough to research
and analyze what she was saying?

Or was it a Dixie snow job?

--
Ed Huntress