The phrase
"wealthiest states" refers to the states or regions that have the highest amount of money and resources compared to other states. These states tend to have a strong economy and high income levels for the people residing there.
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As you might expect, wealthy residents
of wealthy states tend to have the highest average deduction for state and local taxes.
The conditions in which these students have to learn, and these teachers have to teach, is shameful — especially in Connecticut, a state consistently in the top five on the list of
wealthiest states in America.
It's the second -
wealthiest state by per capita income, the 11th most populous, the most densely populated, second in solar power installations, has an annual record of $ 43.4 billion in tourism revenue, and has more scientists and engineers per square mile than any other place in the world.
While
wealthier states tend to chip in more per capita than most, the lowering of federal tax brackets for higher earners could reduce this differential.
d) Just like people in
wealthier states choose to «invest» more into interpersonal relationships, business leaders have accomplished something in the field of business and search for a different kind of satisfaction - and party members elect them simply because they are famous / successful.
A close analysis of unofficial results from the NYC Board of Elections by DailyKos blogger «brooklynbadboy» finds that Zephyr Teachout won some of the city's
wealthiest state assembly districts while Governor Andrew Cuomo won some of its poorest.
Actor Mark Ruffalo is one of 100 wealthy New Yorkers who have signed an open letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a last - ditch attempt to get him to change his mind about continuing to
tax wealthy state residents at a higher rate to generate revenue to restore some budget cuts.
This takes from the richest states and has them subsidize a tax cut for the
less wealthy states.
The competition has also angered some teachers and their labor unions, who complain the competition
favors wealthier states and extends the No Child Left Behind emphasis on testing favored by former president George W. Bush.
Connecticut also has the dishonorable distinction of being the
only wealthy state featured on the list of states whose funding system disadvantages the highest share of low income students; as measured by the percent of statewide enrollment concentrated in those most disadvantaged districts.
Connecticut's inaction on school finance is why our
small wealthy state figures prominently in a national report on financially disadvantaged districts.
Poorer nations
blame wealthy states for the surge in greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say are heating up the atmosphere, threatening crop failures and other disasters.
Situated within the sprawling metropolitan regions of New York City and Philadelphia, it is also the
third wealthiest state, according to 2011 median income statistics.
Taking it even further, the Vatican is basically an ideal version of what some venture capitalists want Silicon Valley to be: a politically independent,
vastly wealthy state that influences lives all over the world.
New Jersey is the second -
wealthiest state by median household income, according to the 2008 - 2012 American Community Survey.
As it happens, the high - tax states also tend to be
the wealthiest states — and also blue states in presidential elections.
For
a wealthy state like ours, this seems a trivial sum.
We are one of
the wealthiest states in the wealthiest country in the world, and we just shouldn't have hungry kids — that's one of my fundamental beliefs.
Maryland may be one of
the wealthiest states, but hunger runs deep.
A poor economy and tax increases in one of
the wealthiest states have made the Democratic governor one of the most vulnerable incumbents in the country.
The wealthy states of the Middle East are a potentially lucrative nearby market for the livestock industries of Africa and Central Asia.
In 2010,
the wealthiest state, Delaware, enjoyed a per - capita GDP that was twice that of the poorest state, Mississippi (see Figure 2).
One of the most successful school systems in the U.S. is not in an exclusive suburb in
a wealthy state.
Wisconsin is
a wealthy state.
Texas is one of
the wealthiest states in the country, but it leads the nation in income inequality, and this begins with, and is exacerbated by, inequities in the state's public education system.
That is a dramatic statistic, given that Maryland was identified as
the wealthiest state in the country in 2013 and 2014.
As the tax burden is shifted to all but corporations and
the wealthy the state's infrastructure will deteriorate further as will quality of life in NC.
It is time for our elected officials in this, one of America's
wealthiest states, to start doing right by our poorest children.
While Connecticut ranks as among
the wealthiest states in the nation, Connecticut's failed school funding system leaves many communities without the financial resources they need to ensure that all of the state's children have access to high quality educational opportunities.
How could such
a wealthy state have kids in this kind of situation?»
Connecticut is
the wealthiest state in the country.
Interestingly, in contrast to the largest city in the state, Baltimore's depiction on the popular television show The Wire, Maryland boasts the highest median household income in the country, making
it the wealthiest state in America.
New Jersey is one of
the wealthiest states in the country, but workers make more in some cities compared to others.