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Joe Biden has out-fundraised the entire 2024 Republican field combined, by a big margin. That tells us three things:
1) Trump’s continued presence in the race really is keeping the other Republicans from getting any traction. The sheer number of Republicans in the race makes clear that they all know Trump is headed for prison, and they each want to be the one who gets the nomination instead. But for now, because Trump hasn’t been hauled off yet, they can’t even fundraise.
2) Even though Trump is polling well ahead of other Republican candidates, he’s not being taken seriously. Biden is out-fundraising Trump by a two to one margin. When a guy is going to have three or four criminal trials before the next election, he’s obviously not going to end up being a viable candidate. So no one wants to put their money behind Trump. Not only is his presence in the race keeping other Republicans from fundraising at all, he can’t really fundraise either. Trump is holding the entire Republican primary race hostage on his way to prison.
3) Even as the media keeps trying to portray Joe Biden as unpopular, too old, washed up, whatever they’re hyping this week, he’s busy setting fundraising records. Americans are overwhelmingly lined up behind Biden for 2024 and they’re already voting with their dollars. We’ve come to accept that election polling is increasingly off base. It’s time we acknowledge that approval rating polling has likely veered just as far off base, and that Biden is likely far more popular than approval rating polls suggest. The midterm elections were an overwhelming show of support for Biden. Fundraising hauls now also suggest Biden has enthusiastic support. It’s time we acknowledge that Joe Biden is a broadly popular President.
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These are America’s 10 worst states to live and work in for 2023, and there's a big surprise at the very bottom
Quality of life is a major factor in where Americans choose to work, live and make major purchases including homes. These states are the nation's worst.
How we chose America’s Top States for Business in 2023
Interest rates and costs are still rising, and a possible recession is looming, making companies wary about expansion as states compete for jobs and business.
10. Florida
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reacts after signing HB 7, the Individual Freedom bill, also dubbed the “Stop Woke Act,” at Mater Academy Charter Middle/High School in Hialeah Gardens, Florida, on April 22, 2022.
Daniel A. Varela | Miami Herald | Getty Images
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hopes to ride his “War on Woke” to the White House, but it is not winning his state points for quality of life. Supporters of the state’s “Stop WOKE Act”, which DeSantis signed into law in 2022, say it protects employees from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives that DeSantis says are toxic. But many companies consider DEI an economic imperative, and courts have struck down parts of the law. The recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action in higher education, however, is expected to lead to new legal challenges related to DEI programs in the corporate world.
Florida is also one of the most difficult states to vote in, according to researchers at Northern Illinois University. DeSantis argues that none of this is stopping huge numbers of people from moving to Florida, and he has a point. The state leads the nation in just about every measure of migration. But rated strictly on Life, Health and Inclusion, the Sunshine State can be a dreary place.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 129 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: D)
Strengths: Air Quality, Childcare, Worker Protections
Weaknesses: Inclusiveness, Reproductive Rights
9. Arkansas
Little Rock Police Department detectives and crime scene personnel collect evidence at the in Little Rock, Arkansas following a shooting.
Benjamin Krain | | Getty Images
Few states have suffered as badly from the scourge of illegal drugs as Arkansas, which has one of the highest violent crime rates in the country, according to FBI statistics. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders blamed the crime problem on lax penalties, as well as prison overcrowding that is forcing the state’s prison system to release some violent offenders before they complete their entire sentences. In April, she signed legislation to stiffen penalties, curtail early releases, and fund new prison space. But crime is just one of the Natural State’s problems. Another is health care, with, for example, just 42 dentists for every 100,000 residents, according to the United Health Foundation.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 118 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: D-)
Strengths: Childcare, Air Quality
Weaknesses: Crime, Inclusiveness, Reproductive Rights, Health Care
8. Tennessee
The Pride Parade at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 15, 2023 in Manchester, Tennessee.
Douglas Mason | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images
Tennessee has enthusiastically passed laws targeting LGBTQ+ rights, even if it has meant crossing the bounds of constitutionality — like a ban on drag shows where children are present, which a federal judge struck down in June. Or another law struck down by a federal judge in 2021 that would have required businesses to post a warning sign on restrooms where transgender people are allowed. But plenty of other laws have survived, like a transgender youth sports ban, and laws that provide religious exemptions allowing health care and child welfare professionals to deny service to transgender people.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 115 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: D-)
Strengths: Childcare, Air Quality
Weaknesses: Inclusiveness, Crime, Voting Rights
7. Indiana
Matt Carr | Stone | Getty Images
With fewer than 10 licensed childcare facilities per 100,000 residents, the Hoosier State is making it hard for some families to fully participate in the workforce. It is the second-worst figure in the nation (behind Louisiana), according to the advocacy group Child Care Aware. Protections against discrimination under state law are limited as well.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 113 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: D-)
Strength: Crime Rate
Weaknesses: Childcare, Inclusiveness
6. Missouri
Giuliana Cangelosi, 11, left, and her mother Nichole Cangelosi share a moment together while attending a protest opposing the Supreme Court's ruling overturning federal protections for abortion rights Friday, June 24, 2022., in Mill Creek Park at Country Club Plaza. (Emily Curiel/The Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Emily Curiel | Kansas City Star | Getty Images
The Show Me State is showing abortion opponents the way. In 2019, the state became the first to enact a so-called “trigger law,” which went into effect moments after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. The law, one of the strictest in the nation, bans all abortions except in the case of a medical emergency, which the abortion provider must prove. Also, Missouri’s violent crime rate is among the nation’s highest.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 98 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)
Strength: Air Quality
Weaknesses: Voting Rights, Reproductive Rights, Crime
4. (tie) Alabama
Voters stand in a long line that leads out the door to vote at Beulah Baptist Church polling station in Montgomery, Alabama.
Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images
Alabama is one of America’s unhealthiest states, with the fourth-highest rate of premature deaths. It is also one of the most difficult states to vote in, with no in-person early voting and restrictions on voting by mail, according to the Center for Election Innovation and Research. Worker protections are limited, as are protections against discrimination.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 86 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)
Strength: Air Quality
Weaknesses: Voting Rights, Worker Protections, Inclusiveness, Health
4. (tie) South Carolina
Senior woman checking blood sugar levels with a diabetes home test kit. Black middle class America family.
Willie B. Thomas | Digitalvision | Getty Images
South Carolina is an unhealthy state, both at home and on the job. The state has the nation’s fifth-highest rate of occupational deaths, and it finishes in the top ten for frequent physical and mental distress overall. Legal protections for workers are limited, and the state’s violent crime rate also finishes in the top ten.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 86 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)
Strength: Air Quality
Weaknesses: Health, Worker Protections, Inclusiveness, Crime, Voting Rights
3. Louisiana
Film image.
Scott Zdon | Moment | Getty Images
With just 76 licensed childcare facilities in a state of 4.6 million people, no state does worse than Louisiana in this increasingly important quality of life metric. State lawmakers have begun trying to remedy that, approving $44 million in new funding in the final hours of the 2023 legislative session, quickly signed into law by Gov. John Bel Edwards. Louisiana won’t solve its childcare problem overnight, but the new funding is a down payment on an improvement in the Pelican State’s poor quality of life.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 76 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)
Strengths: No metrics in the top 25
Weaknesses: Child Care, Crime, Reproductive Rights
2. Oklahoma
Dr. Franz Theard consults a woman seeking abortion from Oklahoma in his clinic, Womens Reproductive Clinic, a provider of abortions in Santa Teresa, New Mexico on May 7, 2022. Paul Ratje/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Paul Ratje | The Washington Post | Getty Images
Overall health in Oklahoma is not okay, with one of the nation’s highest rates of drug abuse, and the second-highest rate of people without health insurance. The Sooner State’s 1910 abortion ban remains among the strictest in the nation, even after its state supreme court struck down some parts of it, like the provision that required a medical emergency to justify an abortion. The law makes performing an abortion a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, unless the procedure is necessary to preserve the mother’s life.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 75 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)
Strength: Air Quality
Weaknesses: Reproductive Rights, Health, Voting Rights
1. Texas
A Pride flag is seen held up in a crowd during preparation for a Queer March to the Texas State Capitol on April 15, 2023 in Austin, Texas. People from across Texas rallied together in protest against a slew of anti-LGBTQIA+ and drag bills being proposed among legislators.
Brandon Bell | Getty Images
How could 200,000 college educated workers moving to Texas each year possibly be wrong? It depends on how you look at it. With the nation’s highest percentage of people without health insurance and the second lowest number of primary care physicians per capita, all those new Texans are arriving to find a dismal health care system. Texas has the nation’s thirteenth-highest violent crime rate, and it ranks thirty seventh for licensed childcare facilities per capita.
The Lone Star State keeps hacking away at inclusiveness, with laws targeting the LGBTQ+ population, voting rights, and the nation’s strictest abortion ban. Yes, there are enormous economic opportunities in Texas, and it is attracting people from far and wide. But this state also has some Texas-sized issues when it comes to life, health and inclusion. And it is one of the reasons that the state fell out of the overall top five for the first time in the 16-year history of CNBC’s rankings.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 53 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)
Strengths: No metrics in the top 25
Weaknesses: Reproductive Rights, Health, Voting Rights, Worker Protections, Inclusiveness
These are America’s 10 worst states to live and work in for 2023, and there's a big surprise at the very bottom
Quality of life is a major factor in where Americans choose to work, live and make major purchases including homes. These states are the nation's worst.www.cnbc.com
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Interest rates and costs are still rising, and a possible recession is looming, making companies wary about expansion as states compete for jobs and business.
10. Florida
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reacts after signing HB 7, the Individual Freedom bill, also dubbed the “Stop Woke Act,” at Mater Academy Charter Middle/High School in Hialeah Gardens, Florida, on April 22, 2022.
Daniel A. Varela | Miami Herald | Getty Images
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hopes to ride his “War on Woke” to the White House, but it is not winning his state points for quality of life. Supporters of the state’s “Stop WOKE Act”, which DeSantis signed into law in 2022, say it protects employees from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives that DeSantis says are toxic. But many companies consider DEI an economic imperative, and courts have struck down parts of the law. The recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action in higher education, however, is expected to lead to new legal challenges related to DEI programs in the corporate world.
Florida is also one of the most difficult states to vote in, according to researchers at Northern Illinois University. DeSantis argues that none of this is stopping huge numbers of people from moving to Florida, and he has a point. The state leads the nation in just about every measure of migration. But rated strictly on Life, Health and Inclusion, the Sunshine State can be a dreary place.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 129 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: D)
Strengths: Air Quality, Childcare, Worker Protections
Weaknesses: Inclusiveness, Reproductive Rights
9. Arkansas
Little Rock Police Department detectives and crime scene personnel collect evidence at the in Little Rock, Arkansas following a shooting.
Benjamin Krain | | Getty Images
Few states have suffered as badly from the scourge of illegal drugs as Arkansas, which has one of the highest violent crime rates in the country, according to FBI statistics. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders blamed the crime problem on lax penalties, as well as prison overcrowding that is forcing the state’s prison system to release some violent offenders before they complete their entire sentences. In April, she signed legislation to stiffen penalties, curtail early releases, and fund new prison space. But crime is just one of the Natural State’s problems. Another is health care, with, for example, just 42 dentists for every 100,000 residents, according to the United Health Foundation.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 118 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: D-)
Strengths: Childcare, Air Quality
Weaknesses: Crime, Inclusiveness, Reproductive Rights, Health Care
8. Tennessee
The Pride Parade at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 15, 2023 in Manchester, Tennessee.
Douglas Mason | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images
Tennessee has enthusiastically passed laws targeting LGBTQ+ rights, even if it has meant crossing the bounds of constitutionality — like a ban on drag shows where children are present, which a federal judge struck down in June. Or another law struck down by a federal judge in 2021 that would have required businesses to post a warning sign on restrooms where transgender people are allowed. But plenty of other laws have survived, like a transgender youth sports ban, and laws that provide religious exemptions allowing health care and child welfare professionals to deny service to transgender people.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 115 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: D-)
Strengths: Childcare, Air Quality
Weaknesses: Inclusiveness, Crime, Voting Rights
7. Indiana
Matt Carr | Stone | Getty Images
With fewer than 10 licensed childcare facilities per 100,000 residents, the Hoosier State is making it hard for some families to fully participate in the workforce. It is the second-worst figure in the nation (behind Louisiana), according to the advocacy group Child Care Aware. Protections against discrimination under state law are limited as well.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 113 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: D-)
Strength: Crime Rate
Weaknesses: Childcare, Inclusiveness
6. Missouri
Giuliana Cangelosi, 11, left, and her mother Nichole Cangelosi share a moment together while attending a protest opposing the Supreme Court's ruling overturning federal protections for abortion rights Friday, June 24, 2022., in Mill Creek Park at Country Club Plaza. (Emily Curiel/The Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Emily Curiel | Kansas City Star | Getty Images
The Show Me State is showing abortion opponents the way. In 2019, the state became the first to enact a so-called “trigger law,” which went into effect moments after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. The law, one of the strictest in the nation, bans all abortions except in the case of a medical emergency, which the abortion provider must prove. Also, Missouri’s violent crime rate is among the nation’s highest.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 98 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)
Strength: Air Quality
Weaknesses: Voting Rights, Reproductive Rights, Crime
4. (tie) Alabama
Voters stand in a long line that leads out the door to vote at Beulah Baptist Church polling station in Montgomery, Alabama.
Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images
Alabama is one of America’s unhealthiest states, with the fourth-highest rate of premature deaths. It is also one of the most difficult states to vote in, with no in-person early voting and restrictions on voting by mail, according to the Center for Election Innovation and Research. Worker protections are limited, as are protections against discrimination.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 86 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)
Strength: Air Quality
Weaknesses: Voting Rights, Worker Protections, Inclusiveness, Health
4. (tie) South Carolina
Senior woman checking blood sugar levels with a diabetes home test kit. Black middle class America family.
Willie B. Thomas | Digitalvision | Getty Images
South Carolina is an unhealthy state, both at home and on the job. The state has the nation’s fifth-highest rate of occupational deaths, and it finishes in the top ten for frequent physical and mental distress overall. Legal protections for workers are limited, and the state’s violent crime rate also finishes in the top ten.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 86 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)
Strength: Air Quality
Weaknesses: Health, Worker Protections, Inclusiveness, Crime, Voting Rights
3. Louisiana
Film image.
Scott Zdon | Moment | Getty Images
With just 76 licensed childcare facilities in a state of 4.6 million people, no state does worse than Louisiana in this increasingly important quality of life metric. State lawmakers have begun trying to remedy that, approving $44 million in new funding in the final hours of the 2023 legislative session, quickly signed into law by Gov. John Bel Edwards. Louisiana won’t solve its childcare problem overnight, but the new funding is a down payment on an improvement in the Pelican State’s poor quality of life.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 76 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)
Strengths: No metrics in the top 25
Weaknesses: Child Care, Crime, Reproductive Rights
2. Oklahoma
Dr. Franz Theard consults a woman seeking abortion from Oklahoma in his clinic, Womens Reproductive Clinic, a provider of abortions in Santa Teresa, New Mexico on May 7, 2022. Paul Ratje/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Paul Ratje | The Washington Post | Getty Images
Overall health in Oklahoma is not okay, with one of the nation’s highest rates of drug abuse, and the second-highest rate of people without health insurance. The Sooner State’s 1910 abortion ban remains among the strictest in the nation, even after its state supreme court struck down some parts of it, like the provision that required a medical emergency to justify an abortion. The law makes performing an abortion a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, unless the procedure is necessary to preserve the mother’s life.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 75 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)
Strength: Air Quality
Weaknesses: Reproductive Rights, Health, Voting Rights
1. Texas
A Pride flag is seen held up in a crowd during preparation for a Queer March to the Texas State Capitol on April 15, 2023 in Austin, Texas. People from across Texas rallied together in protest against a slew of anti-LGBTQIA+ and drag bills being proposed among legislators.
Brandon Bell | Getty Images
How could 200,000 college educated workers moving to Texas each year possibly be wrong? It depends on how you look at it. With the nation’s highest percentage of people without health insurance and the second lowest number of primary care physicians per capita, all those new Texans are arriving to find a dismal health care system. Texas has the nation’s thirteenth-highest violent crime rate, and it ranks thirty seventh for licensed childcare facilities per capita.
The Lone Star State keeps hacking away at inclusiveness, with laws targeting the LGBTQ+ population, voting rights, and the nation’s strictest abortion ban. Yes, there are enormous economic opportunities in Texas, and it is attracting people from far and wide. But this state also has some Texas-sized issues when it comes to life, health and inclusion. And it is one of the reasons that the state fell out of the overall top five for the first time in the 16-year history of CNBC’s rankings.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 53 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)
Strengths: No metrics in the top 25
Weaknesses: Reproductive Rights, Health, Voting Rights, Worker Protections, Inclusiveness
Florida should have been in the top five at least
These are America’s 10 worst states to live and work in for 2023, and there's a big surprise at the very bottom
Quality of life is a major factor in where Americans choose to work, live and make major purchases including homes. These states are the nation's worst.
How we chose America’s Top States for Business in 2023
Interest rates and costs are still rising, and a possible recession is looming, making companies wary about expansion as states compete for jobs and business.
10. Florida
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reacts after signing HB 7, the Individual Freedom bill, also dubbed the “Stop Woke Act,” at Mater Academy Charter Middle/High School in Hialeah Gardens, Florida, on April 22, 2022.
Daniel A. Varela | Miami Herald | Getty Images
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hopes to ride his “War on Woke” to the White House, but it is not winning his state points for quality of life. Supporters of the state’s “Stop WOKE Act”, which DeSantis signed into law in 2022, say it protects employees from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives that DeSantis says are toxic. But many companies consider DEI an economic imperative, and courts have struck down parts of the law. The recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action in higher education, however, is expected to lead to new legal challenges related to DEI programs in the corporate world.
Florida is also one of the most difficult states to vote in, according to researchers at Northern Illinois University. DeSantis argues that none of this is stopping huge numbers of people from moving to Florida, and he has a point. The state leads the nation in just about every measure of migration. But rated strictly on Life, Health and Inclusion, the Sunshine State can be a dreary place.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 129 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: D)
Strengths: Air Quality, Childcare, Worker Protections
Weaknesses: Inclusiveness, Reproductive Rights
9. Arkansas
Little Rock Police Department detectives and crime scene personnel collect evidence at the in Little Rock, Arkansas following a shooting.
Benjamin Krain | | Getty Images
Few states have suffered as badly from the scourge of illegal drugs as Arkansas, which has one of the highest violent crime rates in the country, according to FBI statistics. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders blamed the crime problem on lax penalties, as well as prison overcrowding that is forcing the state’s prison system to release some violent offenders before they complete their entire sentences. In April, she signed legislation to stiffen penalties, curtail early releases, and fund new prison space. But crime is just one of the Natural State’s problems. Another is health care, with, for example, just 42 dentists for every 100,000 residents, according to the United Health Foundation.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 118 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: D-)
Strengths: Childcare, Air Quality
Weaknesses: Crime, Inclusiveness, Reproductive Rights, Health Care
8. Tennessee
The Pride Parade at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 15, 2023 in Manchester, Tennessee.
Douglas Mason | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images
Tennessee has enthusiastically passed laws targeting LGBTQ+ rights, even if it has meant crossing the bounds of constitutionality — like a ban on drag shows where children are present, which a federal judge struck down in June. Or another law struck down by a federal judge in 2021 that would have required businesses to post a warning sign on restrooms where transgender people are allowed. But plenty of other laws have survived, like a transgender youth sports ban, and laws that provide religious exemptions allowing health care and child welfare professionals to deny service to transgender people.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 115 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: D-)
Strengths: Childcare, Air Quality
Weaknesses: Inclusiveness, Crime, Voting Rights
7. Indiana
Matt Carr | Stone | Getty Images
With fewer than 10 licensed childcare facilities per 100,000 residents, the Hoosier State is making it hard for some families to fully participate in the workforce. It is the second-worst figure in the nation (behind Louisiana), according to the advocacy group Child Care Aware. Protections against discrimination under state law are limited as well.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 113 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: D-)
Strength: Crime Rate
Weaknesses: Childcare, Inclusiveness
6. Missouri
Giuliana Cangelosi, 11, left, and her mother Nichole Cangelosi share a moment together while attending a protest opposing the Supreme Court's ruling overturning federal protections for abortion rights Friday, June 24, 2022., in Mill Creek Park at Country Club Plaza. (Emily Curiel/The Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Emily Curiel | Kansas City Star | Getty Images
The Show Me State is showing abortion opponents the way. In 2019, the state became the first to enact a so-called “trigger law,” which went into effect moments after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. The law, one of the strictest in the nation, bans all abortions except in the case of a medical emergency, which the abortion provider must prove. Also, Missouri’s violent crime rate is among the nation’s highest.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 98 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)
Strength: Air Quality
Weaknesses: Voting Rights, Reproductive Rights, Crime
4. (tie) Alabama
Voters stand in a long line that leads out the door to vote at Beulah Baptist Church polling station in Montgomery, Alabama.
Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images
Alabama is one of America’s unhealthiest states, with the fourth-highest rate of premature deaths. It is also one of the most difficult states to vote in, with no in-person early voting and restrictions on voting by mail, according to the Center for Election Innovation and Research. Worker protections are limited, as are protections against discrimination.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 86 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)
Strength: Air Quality
Weaknesses: Voting Rights, Worker Protections, Inclusiveness, Health
4. (tie) South Carolina
Senior woman checking blood sugar levels with a diabetes home test kit. Black middle class America family.
Willie B. Thomas | Digitalvision | Getty Images
South Carolina is an unhealthy state, both at home and on the job. The state has the nation’s fifth-highest rate of occupational deaths, and it finishes in the top ten for frequent physical and mental distress overall. Legal protections for workers are limited, and the state’s violent crime rate also finishes in the top ten.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 86 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)
Strength: Air Quality
Weaknesses: Health, Worker Protections, Inclusiveness, Crime, Voting Rights
3. Louisiana
Film image.
Scott Zdon | Moment | Getty Images
With just 76 licensed childcare facilities in a state of 4.6 million people, no state does worse than Louisiana in this increasingly important quality of life metric. State lawmakers have begun trying to remedy that, approving $44 million in new funding in the final hours of the 2023 legislative session, quickly signed into law by Gov. John Bel Edwards. Louisiana won’t solve its childcare problem overnight, but the new funding is a down payment on an improvement in the Pelican State’s poor quality of life.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 76 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)
Strengths: No metrics in the top 25
Weaknesses: Child Care, Crime, Reproductive Rights
2. Oklahoma
Dr. Franz Theard consults a woman seeking abortion from Oklahoma in his clinic, Womens Reproductive Clinic, a provider of abortions in Santa Teresa, New Mexico on May 7, 2022. Paul Ratje/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Paul Ratje | The Washington Post | Getty Images
Overall health in Oklahoma is not okay, with one of the nation’s highest rates of drug abuse, and the second-highest rate of people without health insurance. The Sooner State’s 1910 abortion ban remains among the strictest in the nation, even after its state supreme court struck down some parts of it, like the provision that required a medical emergency to justify an abortion. The law makes performing an abortion a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, unless the procedure is necessary to preserve the mother’s life.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 75 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)
Strength: Air Quality
Weaknesses: Reproductive Rights, Health, Voting Rights
1. Texas
A Pride flag is seen held up in a crowd during preparation for a Queer March to the Texas State Capitol on April 15, 2023 in Austin, Texas. People from across Texas rallied together in protest against a slew of anti-LGBTQIA+ and drag bills being proposed among legislators.
Brandon Bell | Getty Images
How could 200,000 college educated workers moving to Texas each year possibly be wrong? It depends on how you look at it. With the nation’s highest percentage of people without health insurance and the second lowest number of primary care physicians per capita, all those new Texans are arriving to find a dismal health care system. Texas has the nation’s thirteenth-highest violent crime rate, and it ranks thirty seventh for licensed childcare facilities per capita.
The Lone Star State keeps hacking away at inclusiveness, with laws targeting the LGBTQ+ population, voting rights, and the nation’s strictest abortion ban. Yes, there are enormous economic opportunities in Texas, and it is attracting people from far and wide. But this state also has some Texas-sized issues when it comes to life, health and inclusion. And it is one of the reasons that the state fell out of the overall top five for the first time in the 16-year history of CNBC’s rankings.
2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 53 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)
Strengths: No metrics in the top 25
Weaknesses: Reproductive Rights, Health, Voting Rights, Worker Protections, Inclusiveness
CNBC "Top States for Business" ranks worst states for workers, they are "surprised", I'm not
CNBC has an ongoing series on “Best States” — best states for business, best states to live and work in, etc. Yesterday they published here their worst states to live and work in. The headline was: These are America’s 10 worst states to live and work...
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America’s Top States for Business 2023: The full rankings
OVERALL RANK STATE WORK- FORCE INFRA- STRUCTURE ECONOMY LIFE, HEALTH & INCLUSION COST OF DOING BUSINESS TECHN & INNOVATION BUSINESS FRIENDLI- NESS EDUCATION ACCESS TO CAPITAL COST OF LIVING 1 North Carolina 1 16 3 34 18 6 10 7 6 27 2 Virginia 7 10 13 16 34 15 6 1 4 25 3 Tennessee 9 3 5 43...
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When someone says … “isn’t American”, at what point does the reader realize that the person making the statement is a clown? Is the KKK a militia? Yes, they’re a militia. So how is a new, anti-black, pro monied-interest not American?
I just spent 30 minutes watching Friday After Next clips between American for Prosperity ads.
Maybe we as black people are slow.
I just spent 30 minutes watching Friday After Next clips between American for Prosperity ads.
Maybe we as black people are slow.
The Republicans have been doing some very dumb shit also Florida is making things much worse for Republicans. Also, more generation Z will be voting next year. 2022 was a very interesting microcosm of what’s going to happen.
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Met a woman today at Bristols in Louisville.
Said she was a “Devout Christian.”
Everytime she meets a Trump supporter who claims to be Christian she asks them to name “One thing- not 2 or 3 or 4” but one thing Trump has done that Jesus would approve of.
“Nobody has ever named one thing” she told me of the hundreds of Christians she’s asked.