It’s much easier these days to see state to state comparisons. U.S. News and World Report has been joined by WalletHub, WorldPopulationReview and others in regularly publishing all sorts of rankings.
For example, WalletHub recently published several for Mississippi.
Mississippi ranked 3rd among the 50 states for frequency of job resignations. The ranking was based on both latest month and annual data. West Virginia ranked at the top followed by Arizona. Massachusetts ranked last.
The tight labor market and newly created job opportunities were key factors according to WalletHub researchers. For July Mississippi had a resignation rate of 3.5%. For the 12-month period ending in July it was 3.23%.
In a related study, WalletHub ranked states where employers were struggling the most to fill job openings. Mississippi ranked 7thbased on job openings for the latest month and annual data. Alaska, West Virginia, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia were the top six states with New York at the bottom.
WalletHub researchers also looked into which states would be most impacted by the resumption of interest on student loan debt. As of September 1st, interest on debt that had been suspended resumed for many students. Mississippi ranked as the second most affected state behind Pennsylvania with Wyoming the least affected.
This analysis combined two major categories of data to determine the rankings – student-loan indebtedness and student-loan forgiveness eligibility. Mississippi ranked 1st in student-loan indebtedness and 19th on student-loan forgiveness eligibility. Among the key debt factors were share of state residents with debt, average debt as a share of income, share of student loans in past-due and default status, and share of graduate students with debt. Among the key forgiveness factors were average student loan debt eligible for forgiveness, share of student borrowers eligible for forgiveness, and taxation of loan forgiveness.
A fourth WalletHub study ranked states most impacted by major natural disasters (hurricanes, tornados, floods, etc.) from 1980 to 2023. Mississippi ranked 1st followed by Louisiana, Texas, and Florida with Maine 50th. Two factors determining the rankings were the number of disasters causing $1 billion plus in damages and losses per capita.
Sources for all the above included the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census Bureau, Department of Education, the Institute for College Access & Success, Council for Community and Economic Research, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Student Borrower Protection Center, and the National Centers for Environmental Information.
Wallet Hub is not primarily a data resource company or even a media outlet. It is a personal finance company. Its frequent state rankings appear to be a nifty public relations tool to promote its website.
“The intelligent man is always open to new ideas; in fact, he looks for them” – Proverbs 18:15.
11 comments:
No categories for crooked politicians and Marxist politicians? MS would be on the short list.
We can't let inconvenient facts affect what we want to believe.
We don't need no federal government!
This is sarcasm for the those who think we are able to survive without federal support. You cannot grasp that your success, the money you made, was made possible by the federal dollars coming into Mississippi.
If there were a category for states that are most crippled by their past mistakes and wrongdoings there is no doubt no doubt Mississippi would rank Numero Uno!
If 10:30am ever drove on an interstate or transited through airports or voted , he owes his whole fkg life to the feds, whom he was born to serve.
Decades ago the federal politicians learned that they could bribe the taxpayers with their own money, but only after a huge cut/overhead is applied.
That is NOT federal money...it is our money!
It would be significantly more cost effective if the money was kept in each state and not sent to Washington.
The powers given to the federal government in our Constitution are limited.
Was sure Crawford was mailing this one in until I caught a glimpse of Ramsey's stories grope today. The Barksdaler effort has morphed into a journo version of the Dollar Store.
Totally meaningless conclusions based on fictitious data driven by assumptions, guestimates and faulty premises.
But, it seems some of us are dependent on that sort of minutia.
If your forensic tweezers are sharp enough and your magnifying glass is of the right convexivity, you can pick a nit off a gnat's ass.
Federal dollars are taxes collected from the few honest working taxpayers left in the country and then given to the lazy ner’ do well freeloaders in exchange for their votes. Mississippi gets so many Federal dollars because we have so many folks lying around living off the gubmint tit. It’s that simple.
Medicaid is a yuuugh part of the federal money coming to Mississippi.
Speaking of crooked politicians, Kingfish has totally ignored the huge fraudulent, money-laundering scheme going on with the Emergency Management Grant at Rolling Fork (related to the devastating tornado).
Think about it. A Vicksburg preacher 'earning' $9000 a week to 'administer' a grant for residents of Rolling Fork, with the invoice signed off by the Mayor of Rolling Fork.
And others associated with the preacher making 7,6,5 thousand a week to push paper.
Apology: Kingfish emailed me a link that proved this blog, in early October, did feature WLBT's coverage of this Rolling Fork scandal. Time marches on. Follow-up is essential. People need to go to jail and hopefully will.
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