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Maddison Pace
Media giant U.S. News & World Report has delivered its yearly study of the fifty states and concluded that the Old Dominion is 7th best.
U.S. News compared the fifty states using 71 different metrics broken down into 8 categories. The most heavily weighted categories were healthcare, education, and economy, followed by infrastructure, opportunity, fiscal stability, crime & corrections, and natural environment. Virginia’s individual rankings:
Top 10
- Washington
- Minnesota
- Utah
- New Hamptshire
- Idaho
- Nebraska
- Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Massachussets
- Florida
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