Why Trump-Voting States May Be Lagging in the Jobs Race
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Don’t look to the labor market to heal America’s political divide.
States that voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election have been enjoying a stronger job market than those that helped to elect Republican Donald Trump, according to Robin Brooks, chief economist at the Institute of International Finance in Washington. That has driven the gap between so-called red and blue states in the employment-population ratio to its widest since before the global financial crisis, he writes in a series of research notes.