Unhappy With Work? Move to a Blue State

The Political Economy Research Institute at Umass recently published a study called the Work Environment Index.

In a nutshell, states' jobs are evaluated in terms of average pay, employment opportunities, employee benefits, percentage of low-income workers, fair treatment between genders and ability for employees to unionize.

The study concludes that there is, "consistent correspondence between the quality of a state's environment for workers and its economic health."

Conservatives pride themselves on both representing the "working man," as well as having the ability to stimulate the economy in the private sector. Look at both maps below and tell me what a load of bullshit that is (keeping in mind AK and HI are both blue):

You can view a list of the rankings here.