The Cities with the Highest Unemployment in America

The Democratic National Convention occurring in Chicago is touting the importance of defeating Trump, climate change, gun control, and abortion. These are the ONLY talking points that the Democrats harp on while ignoring the REAL issues plaguing the nation. It was revealed earlier this week that the Biden-Harris Administration completely failed to create new jobs outside of the public sector. As the elite sit behind armored walls, the people of Chicago are suffering under blue policies. In fact, Chicago now ties with Las Vegas for the highest unemployment rate in the nation.

Both Las Vegas and Chicago have an unemployment rate of 6.2%, according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. Detroit comes in third with a rate of 5.2%, far above the national unemployment rate or 4.3% posted in July.

“Chicago has fewer workers and more unemployed residents than before Mayor Brandon Johnson took office in May 2023,” the Illinois Policy Institute (IPI) noted in a report. “Johnson ran on the idea, and has continuously proclaimed, that his administration is ‘making Chicago the most pro-worker city in the country.’ There’s just one problem with that – today, nearly 100,000 Chicagoans are out of work.”

Businesses and individuals have fled Chicago and Las Vegas in droves. Crime in Chicago rose an astounding 82% in two years. In Las Vegas, you have a 1 in 28 chance of becoming a victim of crime. Violent crime in Vegas has reached 40.9%, which is far beyond the national rate of 22.7%. Businesses cannot stay open in these conditions where theft and violence is permitted. Chicago considered implementing city-run grocery stores after businesses fleeing led to a food desert.

Both cities are deemed sanctuary cities. They cannot handle their own population but have opened the floodgates to countless individuals who are solely living on government assistance. Their budgets have imploded and those in charge lost control of the situation long ago.

Over 87,000 left Illinois last year, as did the $10 billion they were providing the state in income. The IRS believes the state has lost $47.5 billion in adjusted gross income over the last six years due to the blue state exodus. This trend has only accelerated due to recent policies. “We’re not bringing in the best and the brightest in many cases to the state of Illinois; we’re actually pushing them out of the state with horrible policies and we’re back filling it with folks that want services,” State Sen. Andrew Chesney, R-Freeport reported, as 177,000 new incomers entered the state while 264,000 abandoned it during the same period of 2021 to 2022.

Businesses will flee when crime rises to the point where it is no longer profitable to operate. Crime reached such an unprecedented level that these companies were willing to take a loss simply to leave. Naturally, they took jobs with them and those with the means to move have done so already. These once-great cities are now ravaged by poverty and crime.

Corporations have already fled to move to states that are business-friendly. Who would want to live in such a place other than those receiving government aid who are already part of the problem? It is an insult to the people of Chicago for the DNC to cheer on their only talking points (guns, climate change, Trump, and abortion) while ignoring the American citizens struggling around them.