MOScout Sunday6: Republican Women Worry Most About Crime - Tight Labor Market Yields $110K Starting Trucker Salary and more...
Tight labor market persists…
1. Lowest jobless claims in over 50 years.
Source: Wall Street Journal.
2. Starting salary for truck drivers surges.
Source: Wall Street Journal.
3. Meanwhile, the number of foreign-born workers has stalled in recent years amid tighter immigration policies.
Source: Wall Street Journal.
4 – 5. Weather
Lots of rain has largely kept the West’s drought away from Missouri. Source for both maps: NOAA.
6. Amount spent in education transportation, per pupil, by state.
Source: USAFacts.
7. The effort to legalize marijuana continues to raise big money from the medical marijuana industry.
Source: Missouri Ethics Commission.
8. Gallup reports that concern about violent crime is at multi-year highs.
Source: Gallup.
9. Inside the numbers, highest concern among Republican women in Midwest cities.
Source: Gallup.