🧵 Tate Reeves says Mississippi was second in the nation for real wage growth from July 2024 through June 2025. That sounds great!

Let's pull up the data to see what insights we can gain from it. Tate says his underlying source is the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
@tatereeves @JasonWhiteMS @RepRJohnson @DelbertHosemann @SenDTSimmons @Sparks4Senate @DeKeitherStamps @BGThompsonMS @bill_cork_ms @grantcallen Tate also says it “surely does not fit the narrative being pushed by certain members of the liberal press,” @frankcorder writes.

Well, let’s pull up the data first and then see what the press has written about it so far.

@janwat @MichaelWatsonMS That sounds way too vague to me—I prefer more concrete ideas. For instance, the areas of MS struggling with population loss the most are generally places with significant infrastructure needs and way too high property taxes without a sustainable way to fund local gov’t properly. @janwat @MichaelWatsonMS If you compare these maps to maps of population gain/loss, you’l find lots of overlap. Generally, areas losing a lot of population receive little support from the state and have high local property taxes.