Stephan: Perhaps you have noticed that the corporate media very infrequently compares the social programs and the social outcomes of the various states. SR pays a lot of attention to this, because the states really are laboratories — giant sociological, psychological, and economical longitudinal studies.
We know what works. We have the data.
In Kansas as in Greece austerity economics have been employed. In both it has been a disaster. The evidence is simply overwhelming. In financial wellbeing, education, healthcare, infant mortality and a host of other markers Red value social outcomes are inferior.
Then ask yourself this question: why did the people living in Kansas re-elect this man, and those legislators?
Note, this is a Kansas paper, writing for the local market.
Gov. Sam Brownback said he hoped to add about 2,000 private sector jobs a month in Kansas during his second term, but the state has fallen far short of that figure so far in 2015.
Credit: Thad Allton/AP|
The new national jobs report for April, released Wednesday, shows Kansas now trails 44 other states and the District of Columbia in total nonfarm job creation in the first four months of 2015.
That’s an extremely dismal record, especially given that Gov. Sam Brownback has pledged previously that the huge income tax cuts he pushed in 2012 would bring a resurgence of employment to the Sunflower State.
It’s not happening.
The new report shows Brownback is falling far short of keeping his promise on job creation in Kansas.
Remember that pledge?
During his re-election campaign in 2015, the
