For the first time since 1984, unemployment fell in every state and D.C. last year

[kpete]

For the first time in three decades, unemployment fell in every state and the District of Columbia last year.

The last time that happened, in 1984, Apple was unveiling the original Macintosh. Nearly half the nation — 24 states — saw the unemployment rate drop by one percentage point or more last year. Illinois saw the biggest decline, of 2 percentage points. Colorado, North Carolina and Ohio each saw a 1.8 point decline. North Dakota and Alaska saw the smallest declines of 0.1 percentage points.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1484

lots more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/03/04/for-the-first-time-since-1984-unemployment-fell-in-every-state-and-d-c-last-year/?tid=sm_tw

[frazzled]

1. As usual, good news breeds

total silence.

There's got to be a downside to this, dammit. Because positive news is just a downer. If you can't spew some invective, what's the point to living, anyway?

(cue the "but they're bad jobs" and "so what" responses.)