Counties across the United States where the majority of residents voted for President Donald Trump in the 2020 election are recouping all their COVID-19 pandemic job losses at a faster rate than those that voted for President Joe Biden, according to an analysis by the Economic Innovation Group.
The analysis is based on local employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics through the first quarter of 2022.
It found that through the first quarter, counties that supported Trump had nearly fully regained all the jobs they lost when the COVID-19 pandemic led to a downturn at the start of 2020.
Specifically, it found that by the end Q1 2022, Trump-supporting counties were just 124,000 jobs short of where they stood prior to the pandemic in Q1 2020, marking an employment shortfall of about 0.3 percent….