These 10 States Will Be Hurting the Most After the Commodities Meltdown
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In the brutal commodities meltdown, all U.S. states are not created equal.
In fact, the impact has been vastly different. The Bloomberg Commodity Index last week reached a 13-year low and has plunged 61 percent since its peak in 2008. That matters a lot in, say, Wyoming, Louisiana, Texas and Nebraska. Not so much in New Jersey or Massachusetts, for example. The map below shows the top 10 states with the greatest exposure as measured by mining and agriculture's share of the economy in 2014. The darker the color, the more the state's economy is at risk.