Friday, November 19, 2010

State Winners And Losers

The US Bureau of Economic Analysis released its numbers on state GDP (called Gross State Product or GSP) for 2009 yesterday. The numbers are now up on usgovernmentspending.com. So now we can see the winners and the losers in the Great Recession.

Here are the top winners:

StateGrowth
Rate
Oklahoma6.6%
Wyoming5.4%
North Dakota3.9%
Alaska3.5%
Louisiana2.5%

Looks like the energy states were doing best. Now here are the big losers:

StateGrowth
Rate
Nevada-6.4%
Michigan-5.2%
New York-4.3%
Arizona-3.9%
Indiana-3.6%

Looks like two housing-crash states and two deep-blue basket cases. But Indiana?

Head on over to usgovernmentspending.com and take a look.

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