On Monday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a report which shows that Obamacare will cost the economy the equivalent of 2.5 million jobs by 2024. That's a lot of lost hours and paychecks, but we thought it would be interesting to extrapolate this number by state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics tells us what percentage of all jobs each state has, so it's a simple matter to figure out how many jobs Obamacare might cost each state. Here's the results:
|
State |
Jobs |
|
Alabama |
34,444 |
|
Alaska |
6,055 |
|
Arizona |
46,127 |
|
Arkansas |
21,695 |
|
California |
268,441 |
|
Colorado |
43,257 |
|
Connecticut |
30,015 |
|
Delaware |
7,827 |
|
District of Columbia |
13,313 |
|
Florida |
138,967 |
|
Georgia |
74,133 |
|
Hawaii |
11,290 |
|
Idaho |
11,586 |
|
Illinois |
106,067 |
|
Indiana |
54,087 |
|
Iowa |
27,784 |
|
Kansas |
25,010 |
|
Kentucky |
33,497 |
|
Louisiana |
35,701 |
|
Maine |
10,916 |
|
Maryland |
47,719 |
|
Massachusetts |
60,978 |
|
Michigan |
74,395 |
|
Minnesota |
50,855 |
|
Mississippi |
20,488 |
|
Missouri |
49,475 |
|
Montana |
8,153 |
|
Nebraska |
17,665 |
|
Nevada |
21,451 |
|
New Hampshire |
11,639 |
|
New Jersey |
71,661 |
|
New Mexico |
14,731 |
|
New York |
162,576 |
|
North Carolina |
74,469 |
|
North Dakota |
8,291 |
|
Ohio |
94,534 |
|
Oklahoma |
29,753 |
|
Oregon |
30,587 |
|
Pennsylvania |
104,731 |
|
Rhode Island |
8,529 |
|
South Carolina |
34,779 |
|
South Dakota |
7,669 |
|
Tennessee |
50,372 |
|
Texas |
204,989 |
|
Utah |
23,413 |
|
Vermont |
5,619 |
|
Virginia |
68,662 |
|
Washington |
53,445 |
|
West Virginia |
14,068 |
|
Wisconsin |
51,633 |
|
Wyoming |
5,319 |
|
Puerto Rico |
16,438 |
|
Virgin Islands |
702 |