GDP Growth in 2023

[Rover]

Life is how you make it.

There seems to be a failure to understand how lack of an educated work force and reliance on low value-added industry, as well as protectionism vs, excellence, and lack of investable capital produces low GDP numbers. Those states also seem to be of a common political belief. There is a pretty clear separation in gdp from the coasts vs the interior low population, less educated and more agrarian states. Florida and Texas are enhanced with big population centers investing billions in high value industries and attracting educated and trained workers from other areas.

[bison34]

There seems to be a failure to understand how lack of an educated work force and reliance on low value-added industry, as well as protectionism vs, excellence, and lack of investable capital produces low GDP numbers. Those states also seem to be of a common political belief. There is a pretty clear separation in gdp from the coasts vs the interior low population, less educated and more agrarian states. Florida and Texas are enhanced with big population centers investing billions in high value industries and attracting educated and trained workers from other areas.

I still don't see Texas as some bastion of education. They bring in people for their relocation, but those are based basically off money being given to them by the Legislature down there. They have so much oil and gas money, they make fully guaranteed incentive offers to companies that Oklahoma just can't do.

It has helped them immensely, so bully on them for that. But let's stop making them seem like they are educating their students so, so, so much better than Oklahoma is.