In an article I was reading
I hesitated to cover this because I hate the idea of me being accused of being partisan, but in this case, the work is from the left-leaning Brookings Institute, it is a mere analysis of U.S. Labor Department data, and my intentions in sharing are not remotely partisan and political, but rather informational and, in some applications, actionable. “Red states” have added 341,000 net jobs since the pandemic began, while “blue states” have lost 1.3 million net jobs. Moody’s created an index of 13 metrics to gauge post-COVID economic recovery and concluded that 11 of the 15 states with the highest readings were politically “red” while 8 of the bottom 10 were blue. Again, Brookings and Moody’s are no right-wing partisan institutions. Migration is why I bring this up, not politics. Florida, Texas, and North Carolina gained the most in population since early 2020, while California, New York, and Illinois lost the most.