A WalletHub report indicates Oklahoma is one of the top ten states affected by the federal government shutdown. The personal-finance website ranks Oklahoma as the eighth most affected state, with the District of Columbia as the most affected on the list. The least affected state is Minnesota.
WalletHub used six key metrics to generate the impact list. Those metrics include the state’s share of federal jobs, federal contract dollars per capita, percentage of children covered under the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), small business lending, real estate as percentage of gross state product and access to national parks.
Oklahoma has the third highest percentage of children covered by CHIP.
Oklahoma seems to be an outlier in the report. WalletHub found that red states are generally less affected by the government shutdown than blue states. Of course, Oklahoma is known as one of the reddest of the red states when it comes to national politics.
The full WalletHub report can be found at this link.
