States with the worst standard of living: The United States is considered one of the world’s most happening places, and people from around the globe want to be here. It has a prosperous economy. But, even with a GDP higher than any other country in the world, the US has not been able to ensure equality of economy among all its citizens.
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The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, US, conducted a study and established that a number of US states have poor performance, when taking into consideration nine important factors, i.e. income, jobs, education, safety, health, environment, civic engagement, housing and accessibility to services. Let us look at the 10 U.S. states with the worst standard of living.
10. Georgia
The residents of Georgia have among the worst standards of living, as Georgia fares particularly poorly on the job metric of OECD, with only 9% working-age adults being employed in 2013, the lowest in the country. This could be caused by the poor education attainment rate, with less than 85% of its workforce attaining high school diploma last year. 19% of the population lives below poverty line. It has the 10 lowest employment rate, 13th lowest household income per capita, 22nd lowest voter turnout and 13th highest homicide rate.
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