claim: "we had the biggest drop of the rate of unemployment (in) all but 4 states."
author: lincoln chafee
evidence_1: may 5, 2018 ... but a major force driving it has been people leaving the labor force for various ...  bureau of labor statistics, a big factor for april was a loss of people counted as  workers. when they are no longer counted, unemployment drops. ... that is why  the employment-population ratio — the percentage of all people ...
evidence_2: may 4, 2018 ... the average monthly gain has declined each year since 2014, but that's ... “we' ve continued to add jobs routinely every month for so long, and the ... the drop in  the unemployment rate may be partly explained by a ... economists expect that  low unemployment will lead to increasingly big pay bumps for ...
evidence_3: jul 3, 2018 ... we've had almost 10 years of u.s. economic growth, the unemployment ... worst  of all, 60% believe tech jobs are good for the state, but only 38% ... of course the  biggest challenge employers find in this kind of economy is ...
evidence_4: feb 23, 2018 ... they also started out higher. ... red states have averaged twice as big an  unemployment drop under ... west virginia, for example, did see a rise of a point  since may, but ... voted for trump have seen an average drop in their  unemployment rates that's ... here are all 50 states presented in an unhelpful way .
evidence_5: jun 4, 2017 ... colorado has the highest average elevation of any state, but it also has ... while  the national unemployment rate dropped to 4.3 percent in ... anything we wanted  colorado to think of itself as a place, not just for ... "we have a $28 billion state  budget overall, and $200 million is just a drop in the bucket there.