Indiana Cited as 9th most Sluggish Economy
The countdown of the most sluggish states with the lowest change in GDP from 2000 – 2010 from best to worst is as follows:
10. New Jersey
9. Indiana
8. Wisconsin
7. New Hampshire
6. Illinois
5. Georgia
4. Massachusettes
3. Missouri
2. Ohio
1. Michigan
#3 through #8 were all similar and separated by only a few percentage points. Ohio came in at about half of #3 Missouri but 7 times the growth of perennial hard times capital Michigan.
A link to the full story is below.
9 out of the 10 slowest growing states do not have right to work laws and in your other story of the fastest growing states 8 of 10 have right to work laws. Does anyone see a correlation here?
Right to Work = Growth
No Right to Work = Loss
Come On Indiana. Can we get Right to Work done and become a growing state instead of a rust belt basket case? Editor, please post another 3 stooges video for the fools in this state that resist Right to Work.
http://www.nrtw.org/rtws.htm
Maybe you should look at the economies of Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands and compare those to Right to Work states.
I was able to pull a 10 year GDP on Sweden. If Sweden were a US State it would not be in the top 10 growth states in the USA. It actually falls about halfway between the top 10 and bottom 10 US states. That would mean it outperforms the Midwestern cluster of states but lags most of the Right to Work states.
The distinction with the Scandanavian countries with respect to the US is that they always rank very high on the happiness indices.
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