Friday, December 5, 2014

Income Inequality Is Greatest In the Most Liberal States

The most liberal states in the country are the worst run and have the widest gaps between rich and poor. Could it be that spread-the-wealth policies make things worse?
The list of worst-run states — compiled by the news site 24/7 Wall St. using things like pension funding, credit ratings, unemployment, poverty, crime and high school graduation rates — shows that three of the bottom five are liberal. Illinois ranks dead last, followed by New Mexico, with Rhode Island coming in at No. 5.
At the other end of the spectrum, only one of the top 5 best-run states — Minnesota — is liberal. North Dakota comes in first, followed by Wyoming, Nebraska and Iowa.
Liberal states also show up, amazingly enough, as having the greatest levels of income inequality. That's according to another 24/7 Wall St. list, which based its ranking on state-level income inequality data from the Census Bureau.

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