Arizona 's Information Industry Shows Biggest Gains for All U.S. States

GOOD DATA FOR ARIZONA
Employment in information industry declined for majority of U.S. states since end of last recession
November 25, 2016
The information industry plays an important role in keeping us informed and shaping our culture. When we watch television, listen to the radio, read a book or a magazine, surf the Internet, make a phone call or send a text, or see a movie at the theater, we consume much of what this industry produces. Since the end of the most recent recession, employment in the information industry decreased for the majority of U.S. states. From June 2009 to October 2016, Kansas had the largest percentage decrease in information employment (−41.6 percent).
Over that period, Arizona had the largest percentage increase (24.0 percent).
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From June 2009 to October 2016, the majority of states with a percentage decrease in information employment experienced a decrease greater than or equal to 10 percent. In addition to Kansas, 5 other states had percentage decreases greater than or equal to 20 percent:
Iowa (−25.8 percent)
Delaware (−24.6 percent)
Vermont (−23.2 percent)
Missouri (−20.6 percent)
Oklahoma (−20.2 percent).
Other than Arizona, 3 states experienced a percentage increase in information employment greater than or equal to 10 percent from June 2009 to October 2016. All 3 of these states are in the West:
Utah (18.4 percent)
Washington (17.3 percent)
California (13.1 percent).

Source: Bufeau of Labor Statistics
These data are from the Current Employment Statistics (State and Metro Area) program. Data for the most recent month are preliminary and subject to revision. To learn more, see "Regional and State Employment and Unemployment — October 2016" (HTML) (PDF).

Arizona Go here for Arizona Economy At A Glance
Data extracted on: November 18, 2016 table below]

Data Series	Back Data	May 2016	June 2016	July 2016	Aug 2016	Sept 2016	Oct 2016
Labor Force Data
Civilian Labor Force (1)		3,247.3	3,236.8	3,223.8	3,213.5	3,222.0	(P) 3,236.6
Employment (1)		3,066.1	3,049.5	3,031.6	3,026.6	3,043.2	(P) 3,067.2
Unemployment (1)		181.1	187.3	192.2	187.0	178.7	(P) 169.4
Unemployment Rate (2)		5.6	5.8	6.0	5.8	5.5	(P) 5.2
Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment
Total Nonfarm (3)		2,690.4	2,700.1	2,704.5	2,702.7	2,708.4	(P) 2,717.7
12-month % change		2.8	2.9	2.6	2.2	2.2	(P) 2.0
Mining and Logging (3)		11.7	11.9	11.5	12.0	12.0	(P) 12.0
12-month % change		-7.1	-6.3	-9.4	-5.5	-4.0	(P) 0.0
Construction (3)		134.6	137.5	138.4	136.8	139.7	(P) 139.7
12-month % change		6.1	8.5	8.6	7.0	9.2	(P) 9.4
Manufacturing (3)		159.0	160.2	159.5	158.3	158.1	(P) 158.1
12-month % change		1.1	1.6	0.4	-0.4	-0.3	(P) -0.8
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities (3)		517.0	518.7	519.0	518.9	517.9	(P) 518.6
12-month % change		2.7	2.7	2.2	1.9	1.4	(P) 1.1
Information (3)		47.9	48.0	47.1	46.9	47.3	(P) 48.7
12-month % change		6.7	6.9	4.9	4.9	5.3	(P) 5.0
Financial Activities (3)		204.7	206.4	206.1	205.1	204.4	(P) 205.0
12-month % change		5.7	6.3	5.7	4.7	3.9	(P) 3.4
Professional & Business Services (3)		406.2	408.6	409.8	408.3	408.0	(P) 411.1
12-month % change		3.1	3.7	3.2	2.3	1.9	(P) 1.5
Education & Health Services (3)		411.8	415.9	415.5	415.1	418.4	(P) 419.1
12-month % change		4.3	5.1	4.4	4.1	4.9	(P) 3.9
Leisure & Hospitality (3)		305.0	304.3	307.0	309.2	309.3	(P) 311.0
12-month % change		2.8	2.1	2.3	2.9	2.8	(P) 2.7
Other Services (3)		88.1	88.3	87.0	86.7	86.8	(P) 87.2
12-month % change		-0.1	0.0	-1.5	-1.6	-1.9	(P) -2.6
Government (3)		404.4	400.3	403.6	405.4	406.5	(P) 407.2
12-month % change		0.0	-1.8	-0.7	-0.9	-0.8	(P) 0.0
Footnotes (1) Number of persons, in thousands, seasonally adjusted. (2) In percent, seasonally adjusted. (3) Number of jobs, in thousands, seasonally adjusted. (P) Preliminary

Arizona Economy At A Glance Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ
Data extracted on: November 18, 2016

Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ

Data Series	Back Data	May 2016	June 2016	July 2016	Aug 2016	Sept 2016	Oct 2016
Labor Force Data
Civilian Labor Force (1)		2,214.8	2,222.4	2,216.8	2,208.5	(P) 2,237.2
Employment (1)		2,110.6	2,104.0	2,097.2	2,098.1	(P) 2,128.9
Unemployment (1)		104.3	118.4	119.6	110.4	(P) 108.3
Unemployment Rate (2)		4.7	5.3	5.4	5.0	(P) 4.8
Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment
Total Nonfarm (3)		1,960.3	1,934.2	1,926.2	1,947.8	1,967.4	(P) 1,990.3
12-month % change		3.1	3.5	3.2	2.3	2.4	(P) 1.9
Mining and Logging (3)		3.3	3.3	3.2	3.3	3.3	(P) 3.3
12-month % change		-2.9	-2.9	-8.6	-2.9	0.0	(P) 0.0
Construction (3)		105.7	108.2	110.0	106.9	109.4	(P) 109.9
12-month % change		7.9	9.7	10.4	6.9	9.5	(P) 9.9
Manufacturing (3)		119.9	120.9	120.2	119.4	118.5	(P) 118.7
12-month % change		0.8	0.9	-0.3	-1.2	-1.6	(P) -1.6
Trade, Transportation, and Utilities (3)		383.9	383.4	383.8	383.9	383.7	(P) 388.8
12-month % change		3.4	3.0	2.7	2.1	1.6	(P) 1.1
Information (3)		38.8	39.2	38.4	37.7	37.5	(P) 38.3
12-month % change		5.1	6.5	4.3	4.1	5.0	(P) 3.5
Financial Activities (3)		174.7	175.2	175.4	174.5	174.0	(P) 175.0
12-month % change		5.5	5.6	5.0	3.9	3.5	(P) 3.4
Professional and Business Services (3)		328.1	329.8	331.4	329.2	328.1	(P) 335.4
12-month % change		3.2	3.5	3.4	2.5	2.0	(P) 1.6
Education and Health Services (3)		291.9	290.4	288.6	292.8	297.0	(P) 299.4
12-month % change		4.5	5.3	4.3	3.6	4.7	(P) 3.7
Leisure and Hospitality (3)		214.4	209.4	208.2	212.4	212.5	(P) 215.5
12-month % change		2.1	2.5	3.2	3.8	3.3	(P) 2.6
Other Services (3)		65.7	65.6	64.9	64.2	64.2	(P) 64.2
12-month % change		0.5	0.3	-0.2	-0.6	-0.9	(P) -3.0
Government (3)		233.9	208.8	202.1	223.5	239.2	(P) 241.8
12-month % change		-0.7	0.3	0.2	-1.0	-0.3	(P) -0.3
Footnotes (1) Number of persons, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. (2) In percent, not seasonally adjusted. (3) Number of jobs, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. See About the data. (P) Preliminary

Data Series	Back Data	1st Half 2015	2nd Half 2015	1st Half 2016
Consumer Price Index: Phoenix-Mesa, AZ
CPI-U, All items (1)		127.288	128.749	129.103
CPI-U, All items, 12-month % change (1)		-0.2	0.5	1.4
CPI-W, All items (2)		125.613	126.982	127.194
CPI-W, All items, 12-month % change (2)		-0.8	-0.1	1.3
Footnotes (1) All Urban Consumers, base: 1982-84=100, not seasonally adjusted. (2) Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, base: 1982-84=100, not seasonally adjusted.

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‘We Can Beat This Guy’: Sanders Urges Mass Mobilization Against Trump

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November 24, 2016

by Deirdre Fulton at commondreams.org

As he tours the U.S. in the wake of Donald Trump’s devastating electoral victory this month, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is using his growing influence within the Democratic Party and among the voting population at-large to outline how the country can prevent slipping backward and in fact can move forward—even with Republicans soon in control of both the White House and Congress.

“We can beat this guy. We can beat this agenda,” the one-time Democratic presidential contender told a sold-out crowd at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston on Sunday. “But we have to do it in a way that we have never done it before, and it’s essentially reaching out to people who do not or may not agree with us on every single issue. We have got to bring people together because we are fighting for the future of this country.”

He similarly urged a crowd in South Portland, Maine on Monday: “No, you’re not going to give up. You’re going to fight back and mobilize.”

As for what that mobilization might look like, Sanders offered some clues in an interview with PBS Newshour that aired Monday night. The senator from Vemont said the future the Democratic Party and a progressive agenda must be focused on challenging the interests of the elites while advocating on behalf of everyday Americans and the working-class.

“The bottom line,” Sanders said, “is you cannot be a party which takes money from Wall Street, which is not strong on the pharmaceutical industry, which is ripping us off every day, which is not strong on health care in taking on the insurance companies, which has not shown a desire to stand up and fight the economic establishment, and then tell working families that you are on their side. People see through that.”
In a separate interview with GQ magazine published Tuesday, Sanders elaborated on how doubling down on such concerns will also help hold Trump accountable:

But what we are working on right now is to transform the Democratic Party. I will introduce legislation that will raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Mr. Trump talks about his concern about working families. I look forward to him supporting it. I am going to introduce legislation—I or somebody else, it’s not just me—demanding pay equity for women workers. I hope Mr. Trump supports that. We’re going to have very definitive legislation on infrastructure. I hope Trump supports that. Trade policy, Trump based his whole campaign on trade.
“It’s not a question of us working with Trump,” Sanders said. “It’s a question of Trump working with us.”

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‘Nothing to See Here’ Headlines Conceal Police Violence at Dakota Access

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Jim Naureckas

Mainstream media headlines are fair game here: the writer does a show-and-tell

The New York Times (11/21/16) gets a failing grade for its headline over a report on escalating police violence against Native American activists and others defending the Missouri River against the Dakota Access Pipeline:

16 Arrested at North Dakota Pipeline Protest

Sorry, New York Times–when more than 470 people have been arrested opposing the pipeline since August, that’s not the news. Nor did the print edition headline—“16 Arrested at North Dakota Pipeline Protest as Tensions Continue”—add anything.

No, the news in the story came in the second paragraph, where reporter Jonah Engel Bromwich wrote that “officials also defended their use of fire hoses against protesters the night before, despite the below-freezing weather.”

Perhaps Times editors thought that wasn’t news, because police use of “water cannons” against demonstrators was mentioned in an AP report that ran on the Times website the day before (11/20/16) under the anodyne headline “Police, Protesters Face Off at Dakota Access Pipeline.” If that was the case, editors could have found more pressing information than the arrest count in the eighth paragraph of the latest story:

Dallas Goldtooth, a spokesman for the Indigenous Environmental Network, said in a phone interview on Monday that the Oceti Sakowin medical team, which had been working in tandem with medics from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, had reported that nearly 200 people were injured and 12 people were hospitalized for head injuries. One protester went into cardiac arrest and was revived by the medic team, he said.

NPR’s website (11/21/16) likewise reported the story of police violence leading to widespread injuries under an innocuous headline: “Police, Protesters Clash Near Dakota Access Pipeline Route,” as did ABC News (11/21/16) with its “Hundreds of Dakota Access Protesters Clash With Police.” This “clash” framing—also utilized in headlines on CBS (11/20/16) and CNN (11/20/16)—implies a parity between police in military vehicles, employing water cannon, tear gas, pepper spray, rubber-coated bullets and concussion grenades (one of which may have cost an activist her arm), on the one hand, and basically unarmed civilians on the other. (Police say one officer was hit in the head by a thrown rock.)

One almost gets the sense that editors writing headlines like these have enlisted themselves on the sheriff’s team, waving spectators away with a “nothing to see here, folks.”

The Washington Post (11/21/16) got the news into the headline, but framed it from a police perspective: “Police Defend Use of Water Cannons on Dakota Access Protesters in Freezing Weather.”

Some headlines did a better job of focusing on what was actually new  while conveying a sense of the shocking violence employed by militarized police against people defending their water supply:

• “Officers Douse Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Protesters With Water in Subfreezing Weather” (Denver Post, 11/21/16)
• “Dakota Pipeline: Protesters Soaked With Water in Freezing Temperature” (NBCNews.com, 11/21/16)
• “Dakota Access Pipeline: 300 Protesters Injured After Police Use Water Cannons” (Guardian, 11/21/16)
• “Dakota Access Pipeline Protester May Lose Her Arm After Small Explosion, Activists Say” (LA Times, 11/21/16)

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