UP senior fellow, EJ Antoni, regularly tracks this dataset for us.  This month, he tells us he had to expand the graph, because Idaho is growing like a weed and now has over 13% more jobs last month than in February 2020.

Incidentally, the ALEC annual Rich State Poor State report (co-authored by Unleash Prosperity co-founders Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore), has consistently – for more than a decade – ranked Utah number one in economic policy.  Followed by Idaho, Texas, and Florida as the just-behind economic roadrunner states. Sure enough, these are the states that are in the top five in job creation. Policy matters.

Meanwhile, Hawaii has never recovered after its severe–and extended–covid lockdown policies.