Governing
The economy in 214 counties this past year has fully recovered to pre-recession levels, almost three times the number that had bounced back by 2014.
Still, overall progress has been slow. A staggering nine out of 10 counties have yet to achieve full recovery nearly six years into the national economic expansion.
The data comes from a new report by the National Association of Counties (NACo), which analyzed economic data for the nation’s more than 3,000 counties. The analysis considered four measures: job totals, unemployment rates, economic output (GDP) and median home prices. A full recovery means that a county has reached its pre-recession peak (or its low, in the case of unemployment rate) in all four categories.
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