Here is review of the latest August unemployment data and what we find is what we have found from the depth of the Pandemic, Republic governors outperformed their Democrats governors. Since August of 2020, Republican states have seen lower unemployment rates. Of the top 11 states, 82 percent had Republican governors and 67 percent of upper half of lower unemployment had Republican governors. 56 percent of Republican governors had unemployment below the national average versus 44 percent of Democratic governors.
Throughout the year Republican governors have lower unemployment rates than their Democratic counterpart. We also found that those states that had Republicans running both the legislative and executive had a lower unemployment than their Democratic counterpart 2.7 percent to 3.1 percent and states in which Democrat and Republicans share power, was slightly lower than Democratic Governors at 3 percent.
The bad news is that among both Republican and Democratic states, unemployment has ticked up .1 percent.
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