Here's some good news from the January 30 Sunday Times Union, sort of. Seems that New York now ranks number seven in the nation for the most jobs created within the past year, according to data released by Business First. But then the real numbers sink in, along with the hard lessons of raw data. Texas is at the top of the list with a whopping 230,800 jobs created last year, followed by California with 87,500 and Pennsylvania with 65,600 jobs, then Illinois, Massachusetts, Florida and New York with 37,000, just ahead of Virginia, Washington and Arizona. The top ten worst states for job growth were New Jersey, which lost 30,700 in 2009, Nevada which lost 16,600, and Missouri, which lost 15,800, followed by Michigan, Georgia, New Mexico and Rhode Island also in negative numbers.
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