We saw in a period of one month, 20,000,000 people were thrown out of work in April 2020, due to the lockdowns. There is one thing we have seen starting with Pandemic through the present time, Republicans states have outperformed their Democratic counterpart when it comes lower unemployment and job creation since the pandemic. Regardless how you defined a GOP state whether you rate Republican governors versus their Democratic counterpart or those states that control all vehicles of government, the results are the same that GOP outperformed their Democratic counterparts.
I chose to review states comparing Republican governors and Democratic governors plus compare states with Republican complete control of all levers of government to Democrats controlling all levers. This study shows what other studies dealing with unemployment and job creation, GOP states outperformed their Democratic counterpart.
Among Republican governors, their states returned 102.91 of jobs lost from the pandemics and their Democratic counterpart returned 100.81 percentage of their jobs. Republicans’ governors made up 80 percent of the top ten states and 68 percent of states in the upper half of states in returning jobs from the pandemic. This reinforces the notion that GOP governors proved better at job creation. 85 percent of Republicans reached 100 percent or more of jobs returned versus only 58 percent of Democratic governors.
Then we looked at states where the Republicans controlled both the legislature and the governor seat to their Democratic counterpart. We saw similar results as Republican states returned 103.08 jobs from pandemics compared to 100.35 for Democrats. 87 percent of GOP states returned 100 percent or more compared to 53 percent for Democratic states. We did find that states that have mixed government outperformed states with Democrats control and slightly under GOP states. 75 percent of mixed states returned 100 percent or more jobs from the pandemic and 102.31 percent jobs were returned.
We have found that in previous research that Republican states had lower unemployment than their Democratic counterpart in the December of 2022 and then we continued to follow up and so far, we have found Republican states with Republican governors or Republicans complete control of all levers of government have lower unemployment than their Democratic counterpart in the latest unemployment released by Department of Labor.
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