I really like this article because it's a follow-up on a lot of the post-2016 analyses that showed counties that voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election were worse off economically (I've seen it measured in terms of the percentage they contributed to GDP, GDP growth and employment). This particular article shows that in those Trump-voting counties employment grew by 1.6 percent in 2018 in 10 percent of counties that favored Trump the most in 2016.
The analysis seems pretty simple if you can find the BLS data (employment numbers by county by year). Though they didn't add personal stories there is so much added context in the article.
I hope they do a follow-up piece when new data is available.