Unemployment in California; Just how big is the problem?

Please guess the number of States that have a population that in total is smaller than the 4,657,169 people unemployed in the State of California. CA population is 36,961,664 with 12.6% unemployment. This is interesting to me, as I could not get a grip on the size of that population of unemployed - in just one State.

Well, here is the answer according to the population estimates in late 2009 by the government. The total number of States that have a population that is smaller than the number of people unemployed in California is twenty-one. My guess was just 8.

Here they are: AR, CT, DC (NOT A STATE AND WOULD BE NUMBER 22), DE, ID, IO, KS, ME, MS, MT, NE, NM, NV, NH, ND, OK, RI, SD, UT, VT, WV, WY,


To help you see how big the unemployment numbers are, think of California’s unemployed as 1 in 8 do not have a job.

At the round table (seating 8) at a conference or restaurant - at least one of the chairs is empty because of unemployment. For those music lovers, an octet would become a septet, or what ever a seven person group is called. Name 8 relatives, and one of them would be unemployed.

disclaimer:
I used gross population numbers as reported in late 2009. The government has most likely used some other base line for the 12.6% unemployment figures. So allow for the number to be close enough for this blog.
If the details are not accurate, the fault is _______.
(David you guess whose fault.... :)

This is a cab ride only in the sense that the cab driver wouldn't shut up....
If I read between the lines, I couldn't expect to collect a fare for a ride in a rant, so just get out and walk away.

CABBY