Tue Apr 12, 2022 – 3:36 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Republican states navigated COVID-19 with far better health, economic, and educational outcomes than Democrat states, according to a new comprehensive analysis released by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity (CUP).
The Final Report Card on the States’ Response to COVID-19 ranked all fifty states on the aforementioned equally-weighted metrics, giving 18 states an A or B grade. Of those, 16 are led by Republican governors, including the top six performers: Utah, Nebraska, Vermont, Montana, South Dakota, and Florida.
By contrast, the six states and jurisdictions to receive an F grade are all led by Democrats: Illinois, California, New Mexico, New York, the District of Columbia, and New Jersey. “These states performed poorly on every measure,” CUP explains. “They had high age-adjusted death rates; they had high unemployment and significant GDP losses, and they kept their schools shutdown much longer than almost all other states.”
“The states that locked down their economies have had unemployment rates on average about two percentage points higher than states that did not engage in severe lockdowns,” CUP continues. “These high state unemployment rates have persisted for two years now. Most lockdown states
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