here's another fun fact:
https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2020/Bills/SR/27_R1.PDF
"Encourages foreign-based companies to make direct investments in New Jersey."
a little blurb:
"WHEREAS,According to the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis 17(BEA), California, New York, Texas, and New Jersey are the 18four states that receive the most foreign direct investments in the 19United States, together receiving over half of all new foreign 20direct investment and accounting for 34 percent of UnitedStates 21gross domestic product; and
22WHEREAS,According to 1[the latest available]October 20171 data 23from the BEA 1[released in October 2017]1, United States 24subsidiaries of foreign-based companies employ 276,400 New 25Jersey workers, which is 8.1 percent ofthe State’s private-sector 26workforce, ranking New Jersey first of all states in the share of 27its private-sector workforce from foreign direct investment; and
28WHEREAS,Also, according to that data, 98,400 New Jersey jobs 29provided by United States subsidiaries of foreign-based 30companies are in the manufacturing sector; and31
WHEREAS,Also, according to that data, New Jersey’s employment 32from foreign-based companies has grown 24 percent 1[in the 33past five years]between 2012 and 20171, while the State’s 34overallprivate-sector employment has grown by less than six 35percent in that same period;"
California, NY, NJ and Texas receive the most foreign direct investment in the United States. Sorry guys. We are fucked in those states.