Nine States Declared Economic Winners For 2013 -- The Washington Post

A reader sent me this link earlier this morning, from The Washington Post. It's a fun article to scroll through.

North Dakota won in the following categories:

• fastest job growth
• fastest growing wages
• average hourly earnings
• average weekly earnings
• tax collections

North Dakota could not compete in these categories for obvious reasons (year-over-year comparisons):

• fastest decline in unemployment
• most frugal states
• fastest rebounding housing market

Safety: go to the link to see how North Dakota compares with South Dakota. Be sure to scroll over the state to get the actual number; the color of state is not particularly helpful.

The article concludes:

So, congratulations to top officials in Colorado, North Dakota, North Carolina, New Mexico, New Jersey, Texas, Hawaii, Nevada and the District of Columbia: You won 2013, in some form or another.