claim: the state of new york is the "worst in the nation in economic recovery."
author: rob astorino
evidence_1: dec 11, 2013 ... "we are experiencing the worst economic recovery america has ever had,"  walker writes. that's a strong statement. ... so is the state of affairs today really  the worst of times? the publicist for .... the new york times studied the length of  the recovery in an economic blog in august 2012. the times took 10 ...
evidence_2: apr 28, 2016 ... the president had come to this factory, built by saft america for the manufacture  of state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries, for a kind of belated victory lap. one of  obama's first .... obama's critics regularly trot out the talking point that obama's  economy is “the worst recovery since world war ii.” judged solely by ...
evidence_3: jan 11, 2016 ... the state 0.1% decline in nonfarm payroll jobs between november 2014 and  november 2015, the fifth-worst rate among the states and dc. the average .....  new york's 2014 gdp per capita of $64,819 was the fourth highest in the country,  and the q2 2015 gdp growth rate of 5.0% was the eighth highest.
evidence_4: mar 6, 2015 ... the nationwide economic recovery has largely bypased an area from utica- rome to syracuse and down to binghamton and elmira. .... since 2010, the  binghamton region lost 19 percent of its manufacturing jobs, fifth-worst in the  nation, according to a federal reserve bank of new york analysis, while ...
evidence_5: new york's budget director concluded the state of new york was officially in a  recession by the summer of 2008. governor david paterson called an  emergency economic session of the state legislature for august 19 to push a  budget cut of $600 million on top of a hiring freeze and a 7 percent reduction in  spending at state ...