This will come as a surprise to no one who lived through Governor Murphy’s pandemic dictatorship, Save Jerseyans, but no state fared worse during the depths of Covid-19 than New Jersey thanks to his leadership (or lack thereof).
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) recently published a study comparing how all 50 states performed.
According to The Wall Street Journal,
The bottom 10 are dominated by states and D.C. that had the most stringent lockdowns and were among the last to reopen schools. Their economies are for the most part still behind most others in recovering from the pandemic.
New York, whose former Governor Andrew Cuomo was celebrated as a Covid hero, ranks 49th. Albany’s severe and overlong economic shutdown (48th) had no payoff in mortality (47th). New Jersey ranks last with a miserable performance across the board. Gov. Phil Murphy didn’t save lives, but he did savage the economy and punish students as he followed the teachers union demands on school closures to rank 41st on education.
Like I said: no surprises here.
Plenty of pain though, and it’s going to take a long time to recover.
