Out of all 50 states, New Jersey ranked 19th in the report New Jersey received its highest individual ranking in the education category and its lowest individual ranking in the fiscal stability ...

All 50 states were analyzed using these metrics, and given a score out of 100. This was done in order to contextualize the federal money coming into each state. The return on taxes paid to the ...

U.S. News & World Report is out with a new ranking of the 50 states, and the news site placed Alabama near the bottom for 2025. The annual ranking, which began in 2017, looks at 71 metrics that ...