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This list of U.S. states and territories by poverty rate covers the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of Puerto Rico and their populations' poverty rate. The four other inhabited U.S. territories ( American Samoa , Guam , the Northern Mariana Islands , and the U.S. Virgin Islands ) are listed separately.
Data is collected annually for the 50 states, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico (in American Community Survey estimates), but data is not collected annually in other U.S. territories. For comparison, in 2017 the median household income of the United States (excluding the U.S. territories) was $57,652. [6]
Here are the top 10 states in the US with the most people in ‘financial distress’ — and red states are suffering more than blue states. Christy Bieber. January 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM.
The Sunshine State ranked the fourth worst state for emergency preparedness and was also in the bottom 10 in the financial (44th), road (41st), and workplace safety (43rd) categories.
Violent crime rate per 100k population by state (2023) [1] This is a list of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate. It is typically expressed in units of incidents per 100,000 individuals per year; thus, a violent crime rate of 300 (per 100,000 inhabitants) in a population of 100,000 would mean 300 incidents of violent crime per year in that entire population, or 0.3% out of the total.
Oxfam's latest report looks at workers' conditions in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., and ranks them based on wage policies, worker protections, and the right to organize.
In the framework of American federalism, states generally have wide latitude to enact policies within their borders, including state taxation and labor laws.Among the factors that may increase inequality in a state are regressive state tax policies [2] (taxation has played a growing role in diminishing inequality since the 1980s), [3] tax incentives for large companies, [4] corruption, [5 ...
Top 10 least stressed states . Minnesota. South Dakota. Utah. New Hampshire. Iowa. Idaho. North Dakota. Delaware. Nebraska. Hawaii. For more on managing stress: Work-related stress is fueling ...