Tuesday, August 1, 2023

CNBC: TEXAS WORST STATE TO LIVE, WORK IN, FOR 2023

By Scott Cohn
CNBC

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.


10. Florida
9. Arkansas
8. Tennessee
7. Indiana
6. Missouri
5. Alabama
4. South Carolina
3. Louisiana
2. Oklahoma
(Drum Roll)
1. 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

24 comments:

Anonymous said...

Texas would rise if you went back to Mexico, Montoya.


fact.


Anonymous said...

Way to go racist Abbott

Anonymous said...

They are talking about honest persons not wanting to come to tedejas.

Illegals, trucks crossings, drugs and copy-cat name brands are all schemes started by the rich and political gringos y los pendejos news media swallow it ENTERO. MAMONES...

Y ESTO NO ES NADA NADA Y NADA VERDAD MAYORSITO????

Anonymous said...

Fake news.

Anonymous said...

Work in the Permian basin oil, natural gas.
A lot of companies offer housing, free.

Anonymous said...

reproductive rights? Texas limits reproduction between a male and female?

Anonymous said...

Texas will continue to deteriorate in status and perception until governor Abbot/ policies stop eating away at the heart of this once proud and resilient state. The state of Texas and the majority of its leaders have fallen trap to the lies and conspiracy theories that have invaded our nation/society. Our state was once strong, law abiding and proud . But now , our so called leaders are content with grandstanding and advancing their own personal political agenda to stay in power at any cost. They abandon their constituents ( 2021 freeze,Uvalde massacre etc) for their own personal gain and nothing else. Unfortunately, shit rolls downhill , so expect things to get worse.

Anonymous said...

That’s what happens when you listen or read the bullshit from CNBC tan by liberals for the sheep!!!

Anonymous said...

At least it is all of the humongous state of Texas and not just Brownsville. Bien fregados que estamos.

Toya, thank you for making the world a better place.

Anonymous said...

August 1, 2023 at 7:20 AM
Tu madre, jotito illigal as shit remember when you almost drowned pendejo? Pinche vieja mojada ya mama guey. pinche par de jotitos y MOJADOS.

Anonymous said...

August 1, 2023 at 7:20 AM PAR DE JOTITOS:
YU MAMA NO VALE JOYO JUST LIKE YOUR ASS BABOSO

Anonymous said...

Consider the source. Maybe you can convince people in Austin to leave our state.

Anonymous said...

Juan, a lot of people are rallying behind the racist Jason Aldean country song. Blogger Jim Barton is one.

In reality, of course, everything that keeps Redneck Aldean up all night in his song “Try That in a Small Town” actually happened in a small town — right there in Columbia, Missouri, around those same Maury County Courthouse steps, where the song's video is recorded.

Moms were attacked, store windows smashed, patriots disrespected, mobs in the street, cops shot trying to restore order — and then a group of local good ol’ boys stepped up in the night, the type raised right, to take care of business. The only difference: The out-of-control mob was white, and the locals who had each other’s backs were Black.

It is what it is: A song celebrating not freedom but Jim Crow!


damned straight!!!


Anonymous said...

FOX News legal analyst Andrew McCarthy in a recent article for the National Review had grim predictions about former President Donald Trump's ability to win the 2024 election. "I persist in the conviction that Trump doesn't have a prayer of being elected president again," McCarthy wrote, citing the former president's "unfavorability" that "hovers around 60 percent."

"The problem for Trump is he has no upside," McCarthy wrote.


Vote Biden!!!


Anonymous said...

The indictment of Donald Trump “will stand as a stark reminder to generations of Americans that no one, including a president of the United States, is above the law.”


fuck you down, Donald!


Anonymous said...

trump indicted again. and again. and again. falta georgia!
is russia gonna help him out and offer him citizenship?

Anonymous said...

The country is going to shit and the local daily reports:
Valley’s newest Halloween store to hold grand opening Aug. 4 in Brownsville

no wonder they went broke

it would be ok but no address no phone number no hours and days of operations. so why write the story???

Anonymous said...

Voting for Trump and Texas is great place to work and live. Go to NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia all those black states, where crime is the norm, not for me.

Anonymous said...

Biased reporting by the biased media. Check this out...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12351995/California-New-York-lose-640M-tax-revenue-migration-conservative-Florida-Texas-coffers-boosted-23-1BN.html

Anonymous said...

Texas is out of land for the gringo to steal from the meskins, so they no longer come here. RATAS.

Anonymous said...


AY VIENE UNA CIVIL WAR. ME VALE, QUE SE PARTAN LA MADRE GRINGO CONTRA GRINGO. Y DE PILON QUE CHINGEN A LOS REPUBLICAN MEXICAN AMERICANS QUE ESTAN NADA MAS PARA MAMAR Y BESARLE EL CULO A TRUMP. HAHAHA AL BOTE CABRON

Anonymous said...

Time to prepare and start with a new name: United Mexicans States Hahahahaha comensela pinches cocos mamones!!!

Anonymous said...

In most countries if you try to overthrow the government the punishment is EXECUTION. Here they send you shopping for money.

Anonymous said...

August 1, 2023 at 10:28 AM
They offered free housing when and if you went to work the agriculture fields up north, de bracero or like BISD used to call you MIGRANTS DEL SUR. They shortened the word from surado to sur!!!!!

rita