A ranking was made of state economies. I don't know if there is any bias in it for politics, I see both liberal and conservative states toward the top (UT and MA are 2 and 3). An all too-brief description of the methodology:
By several measures, the national economy is the strongest it has been in decades. The U.S. monthly unemployment rate now sits comfortably below 4%, and we are in the second longest period of GDP growth since World War II. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed economic growth, poverty, unemployment, job growth, and college attainment rates to compare and rank state economies. The best ranked states tend to have fast-growing economies, low poverty and unemployment rates, high job growth, and a relatively well-educated workforce, while the opposite is generally the case among states with the worst ranked economies.
Indiana is #35. We are ahead of Ohio, Michigan, and Kentucky and barely behind Illinois. I think what that says is this area of the country just isn't faring too well. The write-up on Indiana basically says other than our unemployment rate, the rest of our economic indicators lag.
