I’ve been on a long-term quest to convince folks that productivity is important and not just something economists are concerned about. I’ve written about productivity a couple of times over the years, so when an MEP center director recently asked me to assemble some information on productivity (or a proxy) across the states, I was up for the challenge.
I started out with the goal of just assembling the data, but I was fascinated by what it told me about different regions of the country. My research showed which states have more productive manufacturing sectors and how they stack up in comparison to one another in terms of productivity per employee.
