CNBC faceplants with their biased list of America’s 10 worst states to live and work in for 2023
Check out their methodology:
KEY POINTS
A critical nationwide worker shortage has companies locating and expanding in places where workers want to live, but culture war politics are complicating the equation.
CNBC’s annual ranking of state business climates considers Life, Health and Inclusion as one of ten categories of competitiveness.
The study measures quality of life issues including crime, health care, childcare and health care, as well as inclusive policies on discrimination and reproductive rights.Based on the results, their faux ratings of the 10 "worst" states are as follows:
41. Florida
42. Arkansas
43. Tennessee
44. Indiana
45. Missouri
46(Tie). Alabama and South Carolina
48. Louisiana
49. Oklahoma
50. Texas
Now read this explanation on the Great State of Texas:
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
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/14/these-are-americas-10-worst-states-to-live-and-work-in.html