Since December 2007 to now Iowa's unemployment rate has only gone up 2% - from 3.8% to 5.8%. That's one of the best performances in the country. Iowa, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, and Wyoming are the only states still under 6% unemployment.
It makes me wonder why. What is Minnesota's unemployment rate more than 2 points higher than Iowa? Or why has Wisconsin's unemployment rate gone from 4.5% to 8.9% from December 2007 to now?
I'm not sure, but I'm guessing it has something to do with Wisconsin and especially Minnesota getting shellacked by Ricardo Stanzi and the Iowa Hawkeyes in 2008.
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