Productivity and Jobs in the US, by Locality

There's been a lot of confusing over-simplified talk lately about how GDP growth in the US is lower than expected.

There is of course the usual concern of whether GDP even measures what we should care about. 

But ignoring that meta-issue, here's an in-depth article looking at the variance of growth in different parts of the US.  If reading a whole article feels is more fun than you have time for, here's a summary figure we borrowed from the article:

Size of dot = # workers

Color of dot = Darker is more productive as measured by $$