More States Headed for California-style Financial Calamity?

A new Pew Center study identifies nine states as heading in that grim direction: Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.   State universities generally, and Californian ones in particular, are conspicuous by their (in some cases near-total) absence from the October and November JFPs this year already, which has much to do with what is surely the slimmest pickings on the philosophy job market in decades.  If, in fact, we are past the worst of the current crisis of capitalism, then these states may yet avert further retractions in their workforces, inside and outside the universities.