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Originally Posted by Ike Bana
The 10 worst states to live and work:
Rated by financial website CNBC with no political agenda, and once headed up by Trump economic advisor, Larry Kudlow.
Criteria:
Crime rates
Environmental quality
Health care
Quality and availability of childcare
Inclusiveness in state laws such as reproductive rights, protections against discrimination and voting rights.
Texas received 53 out of 350 points for its 2023 Life, Health & Inclusion score, giving it an F in its Top States grade and the lowest nationwide, securing its number one spot on the list.
1. Texas
2. Oklahoma
3. Louisiana
4. South Carolina and Alabama (tie)
6. Missouri
7. Indiana
8. Tennessee
9. Arkansas
10.Florida
Note...all red. The higher on the list, the darker the red.
California is the fucking garden of eden compared with Texas.
For the expanded report on each fucked up winning red state...
These are America’s 10 worst states to live and work in for 2023
Yep...a lot of jobs in Texas. Good luck with the rest of your fucking life. |
One survey doesn't mean much. It's a snapshot in time, and is often more meaning full when compared to other data.
The results you get are obviously dependent on the questions that are asked. For example, for the 5 items surveyed, I'd wager that most folks don't spend most of their time thinking about the "quality and availability of childcare" or "inclusiveness in state laws such as reproductive rights, protections against discrimination, and voting rights". Not that any of these things are unimportant, but most folks' thinking starts a lot closer to their wallet and their immediate family needs.
For example, states that have the
greatest number of folks leaving happen to be:
1. Illinois
2. New Jersey
3. New York
Note, all blue.
The states folks are moving to?
1) Vermont
2) Oregon
3) Idaho
Not all red.
Must this difference be driven by each state's legislative inclusiveness or availability of childcare? Seems pretty unlikely to me. Personally, I think the population migrations were driven by folks fleeing the authoritarian and boneheaded regimes of those states, particularly the larger cities in those states, and COVID may have been a factor as well.
Finally, in terms of what really matters to people, as the US population gets
demographically older over time, people will continue to vote with their wallets and support policies and move to states that treat retirement income in a friendlier manner. Most of those states that you list are not only higher growth (increasing population due to migration) states, but also
retirement tax-friendly states. Again, not many of these folks are worried about childcare or "inclusive" legislation.