More cries for trade-related help
MTSU professor Steven Livingston takes an interesting look at the rise in requests for federal aid under the Trade Adjustment Assistance program. It appears globalization, our state's manufacturing make-up and recession are all factors to some extent, but pinning the increase on any one of them is tricky.
In 2009, about $3.1 million of the $165 million appropriated for the program went to Tennessee. This has increased by 27% in the past four years, as the state takes an ever larger portion of total TAA distributions. In other words, Tennessee needs more and more support relative to other states.
Of course we do. We are very
Of course we do. We are very poor, unemployed,
given up, weighted down by immigrants, and
have a large population that likes to live off
of give aways. Those that do work only make
enough to live on the fringe. This makes
up the second best state in the nation to live
if your are wealthy and want to hang onto your
money.