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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.
This article presents a sortable table of U.S. states sorted by their American Human Development Index, according to Measure of America. The data were taken from the American Human Development Report .
Rank State, federal district, or territory HDI (2022) [note 1] [1]1 Massachusetts 0.956 New Hampshire 3 Colorado 0.952 Washington 5 Minnesota 0.951 6 Connecticut 0.950
Motivated by the fact that economists mainly focus on income per capita in their analyses of standards of living, but that states across the United States differ along many other dimensions, they build a measure of living standards (à la Jones and Klenow 2016 [60]) that accounts for cross-state variations in mortality, consumption, education ...
SmartAsset applied the 50/30/20 budget rule to cost of living data in each U.S. state to determine how much income a single adult needs to live comfortably, as well as two working adults raising ...
Average retirement income varies widely across the U.S. In the state with the highest-income retirees, the average retired household brings in more than twice as much in the state with the lowest ...
The poverty rate, however, is low in some low tax countries like Switzerland. A comparison of poverty rates between states reveals that some low tax states have low poverty rates. For example, New Hampshire has the lowest poverty rate of any state in the U. S., and has very low taxes (46th among all states).
1. Oklahoma. Groceries: $321.04 Healthcare: $315.30 Utilities: $284.21 Transportation: $676.06 Average mortgage: $1,239.21 Miscellaneous: $61.86 Overall cost-of-living index: 86.2 Methodology: For ...