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The economies of every US state and DC, ranked from worst to best

Andy Kiersz   

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The US is a massive, complex economy, and so too are the component economies of the 50 states and Washington, DC, that make up the whole.

Business Insider combined six measures of labor-market and general economic health for all the states and the District of Columbia. They are the unemployment rate, job growth, per-capita GDP, GDP growth, average weekly wages, and wage growth. By putting all those on a common scale and combining them, we came up with an overall score for each state's economy.

Click here to see our detailed sources and methods.

Here's how the economy of each state and DC is doing right now, along with one of each state's official symbols, according to Wikipedia - just for fun:

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