Figure A

Job losses resulting from ACA repeal as a share of total state employment

State Drop in overall state employment Number of jobs lost
Washington D.C. 0.19% -1,466
South Dakota 0.19% -825
Utah 0.22% -3,104
Virginia 0.26% -10,243
Nebraska 0.27% -2,788
Wisconsin 0.28% -8,290
Kansas 0.30% -4,148
Texas 0.33% -40,550
South Carolina 0.37% -7,693
Oklahoma 0.38% -6,354
Wyoming 0.42% -1,168
Iowa 0.43% -6,753
Missouri 0.50% -14,077
Pennsylvania 0.53% -31,387
Minnesota 0.55% -15,806
Massachusetts 0.55% -19,640
New York 0.56% -52,203
North Dakota 0.56% -2,460
Maine 0.56% -3,435
Georgia 0.57% -25,090
Alabama 0.58% -11,459
Indiana 0.59% -18,111
Hawaii 0.66% -4,299
Mississippi 0.67% -7,684
New Hampshire 0.71% -4,801
Idaho 0.76% -5,310
Delaware 0.76% -3,497
Florida 0.76% -64,629
Connecticut 0.76% -12,836
Illinois 0.78% -47,060
Arkansas 0.79% -9,737
Tennessee 0.80% -23,877
Alaska 0.81% -2,702
California 0.85% -141,676
Michigan 0.89% -38,720
Ohio 0.91% -50,343
Vermont 0.95% -2,991
Maryland 1.01% -27,398
North Carolina 1.12% -48,925
Nevada 1.25% -16,332
Colorado 1.34% -35,217
Washington 1.36% -44,654
Louisiana 1.42% -28,063
New Jersey 1.51% -61,544
Arizona 1.55% -41,982
Rhode Island 1.63% -8,036
West Virginia 2.00% -15,412
Montana 2.27% -10,599
Oregon 2.28% -42,348
Kentucky 2.92% -55,949
New Mexico 3.86% -31,853

Source: Based on data from Table 1 as well as multipliers from Bivens and Fieldhouse (2012) and Chodorow-Reich et al. (2012) and methods outlined in Bivens (2014), as described in the text and the technical appendix

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