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    Trump Overstates West Virginia Gains

    by Robert Farley Jul 06, 2018 2 minutes

    Speaking to a crowd in West Virginia, President Donald Trump oversold the economic progress in the Mountain State on two fronts:

    • Trump said West Virginia “is second in the nation in the percentage increase of GDP.” That was true at one time, but West Virginia ranked 44th in the most recent quarter. For all of 2017, West Virginia’s GDP ranked 10th.
    • Trump also said that “in West Virginia, per capita personal income grew more than 40 percent faster than the

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