Why Pennsylvania Finished 35th Overall in RSPS: Jonathan Williams on Lincoln Radio Journal
Jonathan Williams, ALEC Executive Vice President of Policy and Chief Economist, spoke with Lowman Henry of the Lincoln Radio Journal about Pennsylvania’s rankings in the latest edition of Rich States, Poor States: ALEC-Laffer State Economic Competitiveness Index.
Pennsylvania came in 35th out of 50 states for Economic Outlook. That’s fairly consistent as Pennsylvania has landed in the mid to high 30s for the last number of years. Certainly not the worst – like New York or New Jersey – but there are a number of areas they can improve upon to turn things around.
We also examined the economic performance ranking. A backward-looking measure inspecting the last 10 years of policies to determine if they produced economic growth or a lack of growth. This is the more concerning part of the ranking for Pennsylvania as they rank 46th when it comes to economic performance. That’s things like what is the gross state domestic product? What is the overall economic growth of a state? What is the absolute domestic migration? Americans vote with their feet so are they coming into or moving out of Pennsylvania?
They lost 258,000 people over the last decade alone as people were moving out of Pennsylvania to one of the other 49 states. Then there are things like job growth. Pennsylvania’s job growth has been way under the national average at 2% over the last decade. That ranks 43rd out of the 50 states so certainly they are areas of concern, especially on the economic performance side and a whole lot of room improvement when you talk about the policy environment as well.
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