Uneven Recovery in Swing-State Economies Hangs Over US Election
- Sun Belt states have seen rapid population, investment growth
- Blue Wall counties see population decline, high misery indexes
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Campaigns and pundits have spent months obsessing over polls and other data that offer clues as to how people in the seven states most likely to decide the 2024 US presidential election will vote. It’s the economics in each of those battlegrounds that may matter most.
As a whole, the US economy has staged a remarkable — albeit inflation-tainted — recovery from the 2020 recession brought on by the Covid pandemic. Data released in the past week pointed to continuing strong growth even if temporary factors like hurricanes and strikes have hit the labor market.