Statistics show how NYers cope with the recession

Crain's article, Statistics show how NYers cope with the recession, which includes factoidal background such as:

• New York workers are the most productive in the nation by a wide margin: 37% more productive than the average American worker, as measured by dollars produced in 2007...
  
  
• New Yorkers are judged to be the third most neurotic people in the nation...

...go together like horse and carriage. Who's ahead of us? I'll moidelize them!