Economic Divides & Politics
2016-11-22 22:40:04.953218+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Donald Trump lost most of the American economy in this election:
The divide is economic, and it is massive. According to the Brookings analysis, the less-than-500 counties that Clinton won nationwide combined to generate 64 percent of America's economic activity in 2015. The more-than-2,600 counties that Trump won combined to generate 36 percent of the country's economic activity last year.
Those counties represent about the same share of GDP as they did in 2000, so this isn't a matter of differential gains.
One of the Brookings publications the article mentions is It won’t be easy to bring back millions of manufacturing jobs