{"id":87274,"date":"2024-04-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87274"},"modified":"2024-04-04T07:25:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:25:18","slug":"poorer-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87274","title":{"rendered":"Poorer Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Minnesota used to significantly outperform the rest of the US in germs of gross and per capita GDP growth.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexperiment.org\/minnesotas-advantage-over-the-united-states-in-gdp-per-person-has-fallen-from-3237-to-43-in-just-six-years\/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=Think+About+It+-+Troubling+drop+in+GDP&amp;utm_campaign=Think+About+It+4%2F2%2F24\">Today<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>[Since] 2019 \u2014 the last pre-COVID year \u2014 Minnesota\u2019s real GDP growth has ranked 36th out of the fifty states, coming in at 4.0%, less than half the national rate of 8.1%.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/files.americanexperiment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/1-615x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The gross GDP growth comparison is bad.  The per capita numbers, even worse:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Minnesota\u2019s recent performance is relatively poor. As Figure 2 shows, between 2019 and 2023, Minnesota\u2019s real, per capita GDP growth ranked 39th out of the fifty states. Again, with growth of 3.1%, Minnesota\u2019s real, per capita GDP growth was less than half that of the United States, 6.6%.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/files.americanexperiment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2-615x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Walz regime will respond, no doubt, as it always does; with a selfie of &#8220;Lieutenant&#8221; Governor Flanagan feeding Governor Klink a pronto pup.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Capital, productive citizens and the college kids who are the productive citizens of the future are fleeing.   Businesses have been moving their non-white-collar operations out of MInnesota for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota used to significantly outperform the rest of the US in germs of gross and per capita GDP growth. Today? [Since] 2019 \u2014 the last pre-COVID year \u2014 Minnesota\u2019s real GDP growth has ranked 36th out of the fifty states, coming in at 4.0%, less than half the national rate of 8.1%. The gross GDP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87276,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87274\/revisions\/87276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}