Report: Labor Market Healthiest In Red States, Suffering In Blue States

A new report reveals that red states are observing far more robust job growth than blue states.

Personal finance company WalletHub combined several data sources — including change in unemployment from May 2021 to May 2019, change in unemployment from May 2020 and January 2020, and non-seasonally adjusted continued claims from May 2019 to May 2021 — to rank-order the fifty states and Washington, D.C. for labor market improvement.