Analysis: Republican-led States Ahead of Democrat-led States in Economic Recovery in January

States that have Republican governors and legislatures have overwhelmingly succeeded in leading their state’s economic recovery before the majority of those governed by Democrats, according to an analysis of the January state-by-state unemployment data from the Department of Labor.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) research team’s analysis of the Labor Department’s December data revealed that Republican-led states continue, month after month, to outperform Democrat-led states in job recovery (15 of the top 20 states), and lowest unemployment numbers (17 of the top 20 states) as of January.

“More jobs are being recovered, and unemployment is lower in red states,” the RNC research team wrote in their analysis of data from March of the January data.