Red States Are Booming

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While Biden Tries To Smother The Economic Recovery He Inherited, Red States Continue To See More Jobs And Lower Unemployment

REPUBLICAN-LED STATES ARE BRINGING BACK JOBS FASTER

Newly released December data from the Labor Department confirms that Republican governors and legislatures are leading the way in getting Americans back to work.
- More jobs are being recovered and unemployment is lower in red states.
- 16 of the top 20 states for jobs recovered since the coronavirus pandemic began are led by Republican governors, and 18 of the top 20 states have Republican-controlled legislatures.
- The top nine states for jobs recovered are all led by Republicans.
- Four Republican-led states – Utah, Idaho, Texas, and Arizona – have more jobs than when the pandemic hit.
24 Republican-led states have recovered at least two-thirds of their lost jobs.
- Republican-led states on average have recovered 87 percent of their lost jobs compared to just 75 percent for Democrat-run states.

(Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 1/25/21)

RED STATES HAVE LOWER UNEMPLOYMENT RATES

Out of the top 20 states with the lowest unemployment rates, 16 are led by Republican governors and 17 have Republican-controlled legislatures.
- The ten states with the lowest unemployment rates are all led by Republicans.
- The seven states with the highest unemployment rates are all led by Democrat governors: California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, and New York.
The average unemployment rate for the nation’s 27 states with Republican governors is just 3.4 percent.
- Democrat-led states have an average unemployment rate 1.5 percentage points higher – 4.9 percent.
80 percent of the states with unemployment rates lower than when the pandemic began are led by Republican governors, and 95 percent have Republican-controlled legislatures.
12 states hit new record low unemployment rates, ten of which have Republican governors and all 12 have Republican-controlled legislatures.

(Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 1/25/21)

RED STATES ARE BOOMING

Voters are flocking to Republican-led states, with populations growing in red states like Texas and Florida, while the populations of blue states like Illinois and New York are shrinking.
- Eight of the top ten hottest real estate markets are in red states.
- California ran out of U-Hauls for people moving out of the state while the top destination for this equipment was Texas.
Red states are also better for business, with Republican states making up nine of the top ten states for the best business tax climate.

The four states with the worst business tax climate are all run by Democrat governors.

According to the 2021 Laffer-ALEC Report on Economic Freedom, which rates governors based on economic performance, fiscal policy, and executive policy, nine of the top ten governors are Republican.

BIDENFLATION IS WREAKING HAVOC ON FAMILIES, CONSUMERS, AND BUSINESSES

Despite overseeing the worst jobs report of the year, the highest inflation rate in nearly four decades, and a supply chain crisis, Biden has doubled down on his job-killing vaccine mandates and inflationary “Build Back Broke” agenda.
As prices continue to skyrocket, Americans are purchasing cheaper foods, switching brands, and walking away from what they used to buy.
In Pennsylvania, there’s “empty shelves left and right.”
In Texas, there’s “near empty” shelves as residents have to go to as many as “three different stores” to find products.
- In Georgia, families say they have to “strategize their [grocery] trips and think on the fly” in order to find specific items at “the right price.”
- The president of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association described the current supply chain crisis as “just wreaking havoc on the entire retail world.”
- A Ohio shopper said empty shelves seem to be “getting worse” in her local supermarkets.
- Parents across the country report a baby formula shortage, leaving moms and dads “worried” and scrambling for alternatives.
According to the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index, 22 percent of small businesses say inflation is the number one problem they face – the highest level since 1981.
- Rodolfo Gerardo, a restaurant owner in Illinois: “We have to raise our prices. Sadly, if we don’t, we can’t keep our business.”
- Dave Horesh, co-founder of Oxford Pennant in Buffalo, New York: “…when it happens across your entire supply chain, you can only resist [raising prices for] so long.”
- Hillary Guttman, a bakery owner in New Orleans: "With a small business, that's what you live and die by, how much your food cost is. If it goes up even 5%, it can really impact your revenue, your ability to pay employees, pay rent, and keep the lights on.
- Larry Johns, owner of McJak Candy in Medina, Ohio: “We've already been kind of compressing our margins the last three to six months as it is. We can't afford to keep doing it … In my 21 years at McJak, we have never experienced such across-the-board inflation on almost everything we buy.”