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4. State‐Level Economic Impact Analysis
The national level economic impacts described in section 3 can be seen as the sum of
economic impacts at the state level. National level direct production has been
distributed to the state level using employment shares taken from the BLS Census of
Employment and Wages (CEW), for both the upstream and the downstream analysis.
Next, IMPLAN's database was used to calculate the associated direct employment,
value-added, and labor compensation.
IMPLAN is also used to calculate the indirect and induced impacts of production.
IMPLAN is often used by business leaders, researchers, and elected officials to assess
potential local economic impacts of various projects. We have used IMPLAN to
calculate direct, indirect, and induced upstream impacts for output, employment (jobs),
total value added, and labor income. These impacts have been calculated for both the
upstream and downstream impacts of NWPCA-related activity.
NWPCA staff have identified twenty-five states of interest. These include the following:
Alabama
Arkansas
California
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Wisconsin
Figure 8. NWPCA State Focus
