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Post by the Scribe on Dec 28, 2020 17:19:20 GMT
GOPCON TALKING POINT: THE WORST RUN STATES ARE BLUE You might think people across the nation love where they live. After all, you wouldn’t spend your life somewhere that you truly didn’t love. Right?
Not always. In fact, a Pew Research Center study not too long ago determined that almost half of Americans would rather live somewhere else than they do now.
Well, if you’re in one of the states we’re about to highlight, we don’t blame you for wanting to move.
Or, if you live in the south, for wanting to run away as fast as you possibly can.THE 10 BEST States To Live In America For 2020www.homesnacks.com/these-are-the-10-best-states-to-live-in-america/
We used science and data to determine which U.S. states have it made.
After analyzing all 50 U.S. states, here are the:
10 BEST states to live in America for 2020:
1 New Hampshire
2 Massachusetts
3 Hawaii
4 New Jersey
5 Connecticut
6 Vermont
7 Minnesota
8 Virginia
9 Rhode Island
10 Maryland
WORST States In America For 2020
www.roadsnacks.net/worst-states-in-america/
We used science to determine which of these United States are the real pits.
10 WORST states in America for 2020:
1 New Mexico
2 Louisiana
3 Mississippi
4 Arkansas
5 Alabama
6 South Carolina
7 Oklahoma
8 Tennessee
9 Arizona
10 Nevada 
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 28, 2020 17:36:01 GMT
GOPCON TALKING POINT: THE WORST RUN CITIES ARE BLUETHE 10 BEST Places To Live In America For 2020www.homesnacks.com/best-places-to-live-in-america/
We looked at the places in the United States with low crime, lots of jobs and the best schools to determine the best places to live in America.10 Best Places To Live In America For 20201 Naperville, IL
2 Sunnyvale, CA
3 Torrance, CA
4 Cambridge, MA
5 Santa Clara, CA
6 Cary, NC
7 Huntington Beach, CA
8 Irvine, CA
9 Bellevue, WA
10 Gilbert, AZ Worst Places To Live In America For 2020www.roadsnacks.net/worst-places-to-live-in-america/We used science and data to determine which cities in America are the real pits.10 Worst Places To Live In America For 20201 Birmingham, AL
2 Memphis, TN
3 Jackson, MS
4 Dayton, OH
5 Detroit, MI
6 Cleveland, OH
7 Brownsville, TX
8 San Bernardino, CA
9 Waco, TX
10 Tulsa, OK
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 28, 2020 17:43:17 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 8, 2022 5:04:04 GMT
Murder Rate Rose In Republican Cities, Too
www.nationalmemo.com/republican-cities-murder-rate
Joe Conason
July 31 | 2021
Fort Worth Police at the scene of a violent crime.
Photo by Brandon Harer (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0)
If you're worried by the rise in violent crime — a real and troubling phenomenon — don't ask Republicans for solutions. All they can offer is a blame game that relies on dubious cherry-picked data. To get their message, just glance at Breitbart.com, the home of hard-right hackery: "Violent Crime Surges 25 Percent in 2021 With Democrats in Washington." You can find dozens of similar headlines across right-wing platforms, which invariably announce "skyrocketing crime rates in Dem-run cities." (Stay tuned for grainy video of a disturbing attack.)
Then there's former President Donald Trump himself, the loudest presidential loser in history, blathering fantastical statistics that are meant to show how dangerous life is in America now that he's gone.
Such assertions may momentarily satisfy the two-minute anger ritual that substitutes for critical thinking among the Republican base. Whenever something bad is happening, it can only be the result of a conspiracy implicating Democrats, immigrants, minorities, immigrants and minorities in cities — and preferably all of the above. Rising crime fulfills both the cynical strategy of Republican politicians and the primitive emotions of their voters.
But should you wish to understand what's actually happening, not only in major cities but in towns and counties of every size, then it's worth examining data beyond the Republican talking points.
Murder rates are indeed going up in cities around the country. And because most cities are governed by Democratic mayors, it is accurate to say that violent crime rates are rising in "Democrat-run cities." But, as the Republicans parroting that line of propaganda know, it's also accurate to say that violent crime is rising in "Republican-led cities."
While the murder rate has gone up in Chicago and Detroit and Philadelphia, all run by Democrats, the murder rate has likewise gone up in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; in Fort Worth, Texas; in Fresno, California; and in Miami, Florida. Every one of those cities is run by a Republican mayor and overseen by a Republican governor.
Jacksonville, Florida, is known as the "murder capital" of the Sunshine State — and has had a Republican mayor for the past six years. Fort Worth survived its most violent year in the past quarter century in 2020, with a murder rate that nearly doubled from the previous year. Betsy Price has been the city's Republican mayor for the past 10 years.
The point is not, of course, that Republican mayors are culpable for the shocking upsurge in violence that beset their cities last year — nor were they probably responsible for the sharp drops in crime that the entire country experienced over the past two decades. The underlying causes of crime rates, whether trending up or down, have puzzled criminologists, cops and other honest experts for many years.
Equally inaccurate is the claim that "defund the police" — a wrongheaded and confusing slogan briefly popular in the aftermath of George Floyd's 2020 murder — has sparked the growing number of urban killings. But the data show clearly that the same trend is evident across cities, whether they increased or decreased police funding. Even stupid slogans don't kill people.
Guns do kill, however — and among the suggestive statistics of the pandemic is the alarming national flood of firearms purchases. While most crime remains relatively low compared to previous decades, gun violence is way up. The National Rifle Association might tell you that more guns make us more safe, but life doesn't actually work that way.
The extremes on both sides of this issue are misguided. We would almost certainly be safer with more and better-trained police as well as fewer and better-tracked guns. Still, the plain fact is that we don't yet know for sure why the rates of the worst violent crimes went up over the past year or so.
What we do know — and what someone should tell Trump whenever he opens his mouth to exacerbate racial polarization — is that the sharp increase began in 2020. Yes, that was during his presidency. So, you could write a headline blaring: "Homicide Rates Increased 53 Percent in Major Cities Between 2019 and 2020," and that would be true, too.
Would that claim prove anything? Not really. Except that on issues of public policy, the former guy and his little partisan echoes should pipe down.
To find out more about Joe Conason and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 17, 2022 20:57:19 GMT
Axios
Democratic group points to "Red State Murder Problem" in push to turn tables on crime
www.yahoo.com/news/democratic-group-points-red-state-095708976.html
Mike Allen
Wed, March 16, 2022, 2:57 AM
Graphic: Third Way
With the GOP seizing on big-city crime as a top midterm issue, the Democratic think tank Third Way is trying to turn the tables with this provocative finding in a new report, "The Red State Murder Problem":
The six states with the highest per-capita murder rates all voted for President Trump in 2020 — as did 8 of the top 10.
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"Republicans seem to do a much better job of talking about stopping crime than stopping crime," said Jim Kessler, Third Way's EVP for policy, and an author of the report.
Third Way looked at the 2020 murder rates in the 25 states that voted for Donald Trump, compared to the 25 states that voted for Joe Biden:
In Trump states, the rate was 8.20 murders per 100,000 residents.
In Biden states, the rate was 5.78 murders per 100,000 residents.
"These Biden-voting states include the 'crime-is-out-of-control' cities of Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Portland, Baltimore, and Minneapolis," the report notes.
The bottom line: "[Y]ou would think that the increase in murder is a phenomenon found mostly in liberal cities," Third Way says. "But the ... increase in murders is not a liberal cities problem but a national problem."
Read the report. www.thirdway.org/report/the-red-state-murder-problem
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 4, 2022 0:59:19 GMT
Yahoo Finance
These are the best and worst state economies
www.yahoo.com/finance/news/best-worst-state-economies-180823360.html
Luke Carberry Mogan
Sat, July 2, 2022 at 2:08 PM
As mounting recession risks threaten to slow the growth of the U.S. economy, not all states are faring equally.
A recent study from WalletHub ranked the 50 U.S. states and D.C. by economic performance and health. The analysis used data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census to evaluate each state on 28 metrics, including unemployment rates, exports, and the ability to develop startup companies.
wallethub.com/edu/states-with-the-best-economies/21697
Washington topped the list of best state economies, ranking third on economic activity, seventh on economic health, and second on innovation potential. Utah and California rounded out the top three state economies.
At the bottom of the list were Louisiana, Alaska, and West Virginia.
“There actually isn't a striking regional trend,” WalletHub analyst Jill Gonzales wrote to Yahoo Finance. “The top three ranking states are in the West — Washington, California, and Utah, but they're followed by two East Coast states, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.”
As states emerge from downturns caused by the coronavirus pandemic, several experts expressed that vaccination rates and public health measures were key to stimulating recovering economies.
"The factors driving vaccination rates also drive the other economic outcomes," University of Oklahoma Professor Gregory Burge wrote to Yahoo Finance in an email, warning against drawing conclusions from correlation. "Having said all of that, the simple intuition that higher rates of vaccination are a good thing for both human and economic health in a state."
Given the availability of vaccines and booster shots, Burge also encouraged states to loosen remaining COVID restrictions.
"In my view, we are well past the point where the benefits of removing any restrictions on gatherings/travel outweigh the costs of removing those measures," Burge wrote in the report. "A thoughtful complement to embracing this full return to normalcy would be continued support for subsidized vaccines/boosters — which should help maintain these more favorable conditions for public health and safety."
SEATTLE, WA - MAY 20: The Space Needle is seen near The Spheres at the Amazon.com Inc. headquarters on May 20, 2021 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)
Tech and innovation fueling economic engines
According to the results, more prosperous state economies tended to balance GDP growth with attentiveness to jobs, especially in the tech sector.
New Hampshire's economy, which ranked fifth overall, stood out for its ability to increase GDP while also maintaining a low unemployment rate.
Other states like California and Washington, however, boasted strong state economies even though they experienced elevated unemployment rates.
A key factor that uplifted the overall ranking for these states was their innovation potential, which can be measured by the number of independent inventor patents.
"States that have a higher innovation potential can attract more highly skilled workers and potential entrepreneurs which have a positive impact on the economy," Gonzales said.
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That innovation potential was a differentiator for California, particularly in comparison to another economic and cultural hub: New York.
Despite having the third-best state economy, California ranked 31st in economic health and tied for the sixth-highest unemployment rate (4.6%) in April. Where California excelled, however, was in its innovation potential, which ranked third in the nation.
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New York fared even worse, according to the indicators, possessing the worst ranking on economic health, second-lowest government surplus, and high unemployment.
"One of the differences between California and [No. 4] Massachusetts on one side and New York on the other is the innovation potential," Gonzales said. "This is a lot higher in the first two states, mostly due to the larger percentage of jobs in STEM and high-tech industries. California and Massachusetts also fare better than New York in terms of economic health, as they have lower unemployment and a higher growth in state personal income."
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA - MAY 02: Diesel trucks drive along Interstate 80 on May 02, 2022 in Berkeley, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
In some cases, poor environments for tech innovation can stymie state economies with other positive attributes such as strong exports. Struggling economies like Louisiana and Alaska may excel in exports per capita, but their economies were curbed by floundering median household incomes and environments for startup companies.
Another striking example is Virginia, where the median household income more than doubles that of the neighboring state of West Virginia — a state with a low level of startups, tech jobs, and individual patents. Limited growth potential can have a ripple effect across the middle class and upward mobility.
www.yahoo.com/finance/news/americas-shrinking-middle-class-pew-report-131452990.html
The benefits associated with a robust tech sector have led many states to offer incentives to attract companies within their borders.
George Mason University Professor Vincent Geloso, who contributed to the WalletHub research, wrote that "economic freedoms" such as tax cuts and deregulations "minimize downturns associated with exogenous shocks such as a pandemic" while also accelerating recovery. He attributed this to in-migration that encourages talent retention within states.
Not all experts view competition among states for businesses as a plus, however. Burge noted that this "prisoner's dilemma" leaves states "collectively worse off."
“Each state does what is in their own individual best interest, but the aggregation of those actions leads to a socially inferior outcome,” Burge wrote. “It is basically the unraveling of the invisible hand principle - and a legitimate shortcoming of the way the US taxes businesses.”
Luke is a producer for Yahoo Finance. You can follow him on Twitter @thelukecm.
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