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Don’t know if this has been posted already (been busy at work this week and I haven’t kept up!) but this will rub it in the noses of the blue states.

Mine is a red state, and our fiscal year runs July 1-June 30. When they proposed the budget for 20/21, COVID had just hit and we didn’t know how that was going to damage the state budget (no income tax, sales tax only) so they told us no pay raises. Perfectly understandable, and there’s been past years we didn’t have the funds for raises.

We got word this week that the state funds were a LOT better than they projected, so the budget is proposing we get a retroactive pay raise of 2% effective 7/1/20 AND another 2% raise 7/1/21!

Dang; almost for got the article! https://www.dailywire.com/news/red-states-leading-u-s-economic-growth-commerce-department-report-finds

South Dakota, Texas, and Utah are leading the U.S. in economic growth, according to a new report from the Department of Commerce.

The three top states are all in the hands of Republicans, with Republican governors, Republican state senates, and Republican state assemblies, The Center Square reported. Of the remaining seven states in the top 10 for economic growth, five were also Republican strongholds. From the Center Square:

The report is based on 2020 fourth quarter gross domestic product (GDP) data and February 2021 unemployment rates.

Real GDP increased in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in the fourth quarter of 2020. Real GDP for the U.S. as a whole increased at an annual rate of 4.3%. The percent change in real GDP in the fourth quarter ranged from 9.9% in South Dakota to 1.2% in the District of Columbia.

The top three states in quarter-over-quarter growth were South Dakota (9.9%), Texas (7.5%), and Utah (7.1%). All three have Republican trifecta governments, with Republicans controlling the governor’s offices and both chambers of state legislatures.

The two Democrat-held states in the top 10 were Connecticut with 7% growth and Delaware with 5.8% growth. The remaining five Red states in the top 10 are Tennessee with 6.7% growth, Iowa and Nebraska with 6.3% growth each, Alaska with 5.8% growth and Missouri with 5.6% growth.