But we're number 1 (or close to it) in sprawl!! WooT, WooT!! Get me the hell outta here.....
August 8, 2005
L.A. County Tops the Nation in Employers but Not Wages- From Associated Press
For the most chances to get a job, consider working in Los Angeles. But if you want to earn a high wage, try New York City. A new U.S. Census Bureau report being released today shows that populous Los Angeles County leads the nation with the largest number of businesses while Manhattan tops the chart with the highest average salary. The bureau's 2003 County Business Patterns report analyzes business establishments in more than 1,000 industries on the national, state and local levels. The data are used by business planners to study economic activity.
In the report, Los Angeles County had 235,000 businesses, followed by Cook County, Ill., with 128,000 and Manhattan, also known as New York County, with 103,000.
In 2003, businesses in Los Angeles County had 3.8 million workers, who earned $147 billion. Cook County had 2.4 million employees, who made $102 billion, and New York City had 2 million workers and a payroll of $148 billion.
Among the nation's most populous counties, Manhattan had the highest average annual salary per worker at $73,000; the lowest average was in Riverside County at $29,000.
Rounding out the top five counties with the largest number of businesses are Harris County, Texas, with 86,000 and Orange County with 83,000.
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We must not leave, but defend & append. I say this with the conviction that if we leave the anus and time lapse of what is Riverside County, we will never be comfortable in ourselves running out with our tail between our legs. With the exception that there are always times when it is necessary to move on and you've done all you can, for this is not defeat but realization.
I hear that, but more and more I'm feeling like it just isn't worth it. Congressional re-districting has become warfare among the legislators now; creating their own little bastions of conservativism and liberalism. Ultimately, they're creating division among competing municipalities and regions to ensure their own re-elections. And it's closely tied to campaign financing, too. These are the kinds of things we need to be aware of.
I have to agree that we do need to be aware of the great partisan divide but is it real? And you may be right about that it's not worth it, for the great deal of apathetic people that have the understanding that nothing they can do will effect change is a major part of the problem along with an indifference about the different facets of the government(i.e., local, state, federal).
You make a good point. It isn't real- for the majority of issues that are truly common to us all. It's very convenient for politicians when people are arguing over abortion, capital punishment, gay marriage, or any other explosive issue that, really, hardly affects most of us. People need to stay focused on the baseline issues like congressional redistricting and campaign finance so that we can get people in office that aren't so worried about how they're going to be re-elected. I don't meet alot of people around here that want to give it that kind of effort. It's especially disturbing seeing how complacency and the politics of local government work from the inside. This is what really makes me want to leave.
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