{"id":17371,"date":"2011-01-13T06:50:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T12:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17371"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:59:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:59:20","slug":"more-on-those-disastrous-pawlenty-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17371","title":{"rendered":"More On Those Disastrous Pawlenty Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes says\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2011\/01\/11\/forbes-ranks-twin-cites-no-4-job-market-in-u-s\/\">F the Twin Cities are the number four Job Market in the US<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Twin Cities, and Minnesota in general, has a much more diverse economy than many other parts of the nation,\u201d said Vang. \u201cWhile our heart goes out to all those individuals who are unemployed right now, our economy tends not to be as hurt as bad as nationally because we are never dependent on one sector. We didn\u2019t extend ourselves as far out during the home mortgage crisis as other cities did so that gave us more breathing room for our economy to return.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmmm.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the market isn&#8217;t great for everyone:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the thousands hoping for an economic recovery is Riordan Frost, 22, of St. Paul. Eight months after college graduation, Frost is still looking for&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For what?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;a public policy job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeft college with high hopes, thinking \u2018here I am world,\u2019 and it turn out that way, sadly,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe young Mr. Frost will take the opportunity to find a career someplace <em>other <\/em>than trying to run society. \u00a0At age twenty freaking two.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Frost tried plan B, which was looking for retail jobs and a job at movie theatres \u2014 all without luck. He is now working as an unpaid intern at the MN 2020 organization as a transportation policy associate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; DAMN YOU, Governor Pawlenty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes says\u00a0F the Twin Cities are the number four Job Market in the US: \u201cThe Twin Cities, and Minnesota in general, has a much more diverse economy than many other parts of the nation,\u201d said Vang. \u201cWhile our heart goes out to all those individuals who are unemployed right now, our economy tends not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,144],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-17371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-governor","tag-pawlenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22529,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17371\/revisions\/22529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}