"Progress” -- Unemployment in Maryland has doubled since 2006.
“Progress” -- More than 230,000 Marylanders are currently looking for a job and unable to find one.
"Progress” -- Nearly 3,000 small businesses have closed in Maryland in the last year alone.
“Progress” -- Maryland has gone from a budget surplus in 2006 to a record budget deficit today.
“Progress” -- Maryland families were forced to pay the largest tax increase in Maryland history at the height of a recession, including a 20 percent increase in the sales tax.
“Progress” -- Maryland has plummeted 25 spots in CNBC’s ranking of the 50 states according to the cost of doing business.
“Progress” -- Maryland – nicknamed “The Free State” -- ranks dead last in personal freedom, according to George Mason University’s “Freedom in the 50 States” survey.