Ranking Member Maloney called for improving long-term economic growth by investing in education and infrastructure. “History is instructive,” she said. “Investing in broad-based economic growth was at the core of America’s success in the decades after World War II.”
According to the report, private-sector employment increased in 37 states and the District of Columbia in the month of July, and the unemployment rate fell in 14 states. Over the year ending in the first quarter of 2016, 43 states and the District of Columbia saw an increase in their inflation-adjusted GDP.