I am a trucker and last week I was on I-20 from Dallas heading east out of Texas…. I saw a super long line of cars on the side of the road next to the interstate… I thought is people dropping their kids off for school…. Nope…. It was for a food bank…. I was saddened by the sight….
I live in deep East TX. It is a region of the have and have nots. Tremendous wealth and utter poverty and not much in between. They are working at upgrading internet access so hopefully that will help. It is next to impossible to thrive in the modern world without fast, reliable internet access which is currently not available in most of East Texas.
@@lijohnyoutube101 Ah, education. The entire country is doing a horrible job of educating people today. You can look it up. NAEP and Annie Casey list the test scores.
I work north of Seattle in a town called Everett and I was working outside a food bank and there was cars lined up there but a lot these people had nicer newer cars than I do, bmw Mercedes. I make decent money also.
Love this channel! I'm not surprised by New York. I was raised in NY and lived there for over 25 years. The cost of living is so high it's not enough to have earn income that would be considered middle to upper middle class income.
One , the elite freemasons have forgotten is that GUILDS and mystery schools were the TRADES and collages . . . .two , without the trades we wouldn't have the damn buildings lined with the infrastructure ( water / sewer / electricity . . . etc.
@@zimmejoc as for collage professor's . . . . I like my background better. I didn't finish past the ninth grade of HS . . . .self educated with a strong ability too see outside of the mainstream crapbox ; ) . . . . a polymath of sorts , I have a wealth of multiple trade experiences in my grab bag of knowledge . . . .I can fix my vehicles turn around and repair the front porch OR hop in a semi and do a long haul . . . . .. as for now I do believe that I will digress.
We could have 2 years of college paid or trade school for Everyone and then we would have a trained work force to assure that America doesn't fall further behind. Or we can stop public education, give out tax dollars to the wealthy, and watch as our nation crumbles as others surpass us. If you don't put your tax dollars into social programs, you will Still pay taxes, but you'll have no idea where they're going. Again, you Will Still pay taxes. No "side" is getting rid of them, no New party would either. Even if you don't get the benefits of paying them, you could at least see them at work, or choose not to.
In rural E. Texas in the Cotton area their was a textile industry , and all over the south . When the politicians lowered the duties worldwide for Textiles .All the industries left ,this has hurt many rural communities most of our Cotton gets exported all over the world. These products clothes ,blankets ,sheets ,has left the country.
I was born and raised in southeast Texas and I saw nothing but poverty and misery everywhere I turned . That's why when I was old enough I joined the military , left , and never went back .
Yup, we really DO need to return to MAKING things again in this country! We need to divest ourselves from China! You buy things from China and it only helps to make their Military stronger!
Thank you mentioning that! The voters dictate how the politicians act and how they vote. I absolutely hate to admit this but we really can’t blame Congress for not getting things done. They are only voting the way their people want them to vote
Disagree…all of those who run for office tend to be in it for the money and /or power, with little interest in doing things that benefit the people. We should stop voting for the lesser of two evils…
A lot of the "fixes" required to reduce the level of poverty in these states, or anywhere, are considered to be concepts of "communism" or "socialism."" You know how members of a certain party hate those terms. Btw, most of these states have severely restricted abortion, or family planning in general. That's not going to help bring down the poverty rates, either.
@@gogreen7794actually access to abortion and birth control for people in poverty does help. For example, the extreme drop in crime back in the late 90s/early 2000s had a direct correlation with poor women having access to birth control and abortion in the late 70s/early 80s. The crime rate dropped across the US because there were fewer males between the ages of 13-25 born in to poverty in the late 90s/early 2000s
@@lizhoward9754- no, they aren’t. They’re voting the way people pay them to vote. They care only about the donations they make by corporations and big donors. They don’t care whether they represent their constituents at all.
@@hs5312once you go north of Albuquerque and east of there it’s very beautiful all the way to the Colorado border. You have the white sands and elephants butte in the south. It’s an incredibly diverse region and has some large mountain ranges. Never understood why it’s so poor and devoid of opportunities. It’s sandwiched between some powerhouse states.
@@megb9700 I got my friend a plumbing apprenticeship at my old company and after a year and a half of hard work hes making great money. Granted it’s in San Diego, the new most expensive city in the country
I wanted to go to New Orleans my entire life. When we finally went, I was horrified. They really need to clean up that city if they want people to spend $$ there. There were people who were acting out aggressively everywhere. I assume they were homeless, which is sad, but I didn't feel safe walking around in broad daylight. It was such a sad experience.
As a New Orleans native, I'll put it this way...when moving to Las Vegas lessens your daily interaction with violent crime, infrastructure issues and political shenanigans, giving you a much more normal life...that's a MAJOR red flag.
@@MissCleo24 It was really sad and a little scary. I will say ALL the people working in the hotels, stores and restaurants were so friendly. It was the people all over the streets that were scary. I could see how it was once and could be an amazing town. If you do go, I recommend making restaurant reservations in advance. They really book up.
@@RobdaVegasMailman I am not even a city person, but I've spent a lot of time in Vegas. We lived in Colorado and would go to Vegas at least once a year. The last time we went was 2021. The whole family went. It changed a lot after the pandemic.
more and more people are visting National parks and nature sites, the fact that WV has failed to invest in tourism just shows how incompetent thier leaders are. im not surprised that some of thier politicans own stock in the coal mines, and hasnt allowed the state to diversify its economy
No. They refuse. They're still in love with King Coal. Trump convinced them that windmill power lets their TVs go out when the wind dies, and solar only works when the sun shines. Eco-tourism and alternative energy could save them, but they're stuck in their own Uncle Tom mindset and more concerned with the profits of coal execs than their own well being.
Texas will never improve as long as we keep electing the type of people that we’ve been electing. Definitely need to improve the schools and healthcare.
You always speak highly of my state and I appreciate that. I do hope it turns around here in WV. I’m privileged enough to make a good living here. I want those opportunities for others.
It seems like such a gorgeous state, with a really wonderful population. I wish it well. I hope that the drug epidemic passes it by, that education improves, and that new industries flourish. If that all came to fruition, I’d move there in a heartbeat. If not, I’m afraid there’s no hope for West Virginia.
Only been by once but you got mts like NH very pretty state and a lot better then so manys places in USA your blessed trust me the East Coast all the way to Maine has changed ...
@kent... Are you saying a person could do well and be happy in a very poor state like Mississippi? If so, I agree. And like Arkansas, the north west is supposed to be very nice.
What is sad is states like Mississippi and Arkansas and West Virginia would be third world countries without the federal government. I doubt they would even have public education, medicine and few paved roads if the federal government didn’t help them out.
Unfortunately that might mean raising Federal taxes, and we know how SOME people feel about raising taxes that will be spent on someone else. I propose a 75 cent a day Universal Basic Income for all post-adolescent humans on the planet to promote agriculture worldwide. Never again will someone have to say of another: She/He doesn't know where their next meal is coming from.
He couldn't be more accurate than his accessment of 2 Statesvim very familiar with. My dad was born in Perry County Alabama in 1928 and we had yearly reunions on their land until my Grandfather passed in 87. I'm the oldest, I was born in Texas where although unemployment rates are low, people living in Poverty is high with around 30% of the children living in poverty. Texas actually recruit companies touting low wage and many come here because benefits aren't required. I'm retired and currently live in Guadalupe County, if my neighbors aren't employed by the City or County they travel to Austin, San Antonio with one traveling over 150 miles to Houston. Local companies for the most part don't offer a living wage or benefits.
Government jobs are the only way to get retirements due to them being allowed to unionize. Also great benefits. I should have gone that route but did get some retirement from a Catholic Hospital group. They had to quit offering retirement to new hires about ten years ago. Non-government union jobs are mainly up North I think.
Thank you for the video! I was a little expecting my state, Maryland to come out. Besides we have the highest mean salary in USA, the unequality is awful. You can go to Great Falls where all the lobbysts live and compare these castles with the suburbs close to South East DC, go to Baltimore and you will see the true about Maryland. The lucky ones with education got for free in Russia (I am one of them), China and India feel very well while locals are struggling. My wife is from a poor family of Dominican immigrants, so I know how poor people live in DMV area. If USA is not investing in education, it is not gonna exist
In the US, education is fundamentally at the State and local levels. The federal level has been trying to push education, but they can only do so much since the US Constitution give sthat power to the States.
@@kellz7313 if it is the data from Census Bureau, as I know, they have only one poverty theshold for every state and area. Maryland is very expensive, so the real poverty can be much higher
Whole country is going to shit. Education doesn’t do anything if their are no good jobs to be had. Trades are only good if people have money to pay for the services. Fact is this country lost most of the manufacturing jobs. Without a large manufacturing base you will not have a robust economy. Unless we bring all these jobs back from Mexico, China, India, etc it won’t get any better. Can’t support a family working at Wal-Mart.
I grew up in Texas 1950s through 1972. It's a bit of political hell. Even the school books are censored. There was quite a bit of debate before schoolbooks could disclose Texans did not win at the battle for the Alamo. Their post K-12 educational system was horrible when I lived there. There was no free community college. The motto of the Texas state legislature is " Nobody gave me nothin', and we ain't giving you nothin'". I moved to California worked for 6 months, became a California citizen, and went to LACC for free plus books. I got a job with educational benifits, went to school at night, got an engineering degree and retired as a principal computer systems engineer at a Fortune 20 company in San Diego. You couldn't do that in Texas in the 70s. You could not escape poverty by working hard. To escape poverty, you had to escape Texas.
Today, California is hell. They want to give away everything to everyone. My kid went out of state college for cheaper than in-state. California prioritizes illegals over their citizen.
With regard to New Mexico: Yes, Guadalupe County is dirt poor, but it also has fewer than five-thousand people, so I doubt it's a significant driver of the state's poverty statistics. On the other hand, I'm genuinely curious to know where New Mexico would stand in the aggregate poverty rankings if all the tribal reservations weren't included.
The poverty and poor education in Texas is made worse by the illegal immigrants , they take over the lower income neighborhoods and put their kids in public school. Then the school has to slow down their curriculum because the Hispanic kids can’t keep up, because their parents have a 9th grade education and don’t speak English. Then that affects the American kids and puts them behind as well.
@@thecoach11 yeah. I have been through parts of Texas and was appalled at what I saw. And that is saying something since I am acquainted with Appalachia’s (KY, TN and VA). Talk about poverty and third world living
Being a Louisianian, New Orleans has long been a corrupt city almost incapable of being cleaned up. Many years ago, the state legislature gave New Orleans 25 M to improve their school test scores. After 3 years, the test scores actually got worse, but to top that the money just disappeared. Prevailing thought is that corrupt administrators just pocketed the money. No one really looked into it.
You Racist Bigots Always Point At New Orleans But When You Get Right To It New Orleans Is The Only Reason That Many People Come To This Shit Hole State .I Know This Because I Live In B R And I Work In N O.
Trade school education is more valuable then a college degree now… You can make more being an hvac technician then a teacher, nurse, accountant, physical therapist, etc because there is such a big shortage of workers in those types of jobs.
That’s the truth. I have a neighbor couple that are teachers and I worked in telecommunications as a tech. My income was about what they both made together. They would complain about that until we figured the hours they worked per year.Most teachers only work about 1500 hours a year.
The reason New Mexico is so much poorer than Arizona is that way back when the United States first started divvying up water rights to the Colorado River, New Mexico got the short end of the stick Arizona got a much better deal, and California got the best deal of all. They haven't changed it since. You can't do much without water.
They didn't "divy up" the water rights. Water rights in the west go to the first ones to use the water. California was the first state to build aquaducts to use the Colorado River water. That's why their water rights take precedent over other states. Then Arizona built the Central Arizona Project, which brought Colorado River water to Phoenix and Tucson. New Mexico doesn't have Colorado River water rights because they never built aquaducts to use the water.
@DoloresJNurss no problem. I didn't know that either until they announced water cuts from the Colorado last year. I wondered why California got the least cuts when they take the most water. That's what I found out when I looked into it.
@@LuckyBaldwin777 California provides the most food for the country. So, their water supply is pretty important. They also have by far the most people and are one of the largest economies in the world. The country needs a healthy California to succeed.
@don951 you left out California taxpayers support the 5 or 6 poorest states. I agree with you it makes good sense for the country to maintain a healthy California. Unfortunately, water rights aren't based on good sense, they're based on archaic laws.
What do all but 2 of these have on common.... Red States. Try something new to make things better. Definition of insanity is doing same thing over and over but expecting different outcome
As an outsider who has not yet been to the USA, I can confirm that the states you have shown, especially the southern states, are viewed by many foreigners as highly romantic and there is huge scope to expand tourism. Not that any healthy economy can be based on one thing, especially something as variable as tourism. But it is one example of a potential source of improvement. Thank you for the video.
@@HombreWithAnOmbreur sister coming out the shower on a cold winters morning and the door is creaked open just enough so u can see in on the mirror and she just standing there naked. Ok I'll stop
Mississippi is number one. Mississippi is a state sized time capsule. The leaves don’t even fall off the trees. The only way you know time passes is the combined teeth and diabetes delta. Most people started with all their teeth and feet.
Had I not moved to Texas, this would have surprised me. There is definitely a big discrepancy. I live in the suburbs and right now a lot of homes are vacant. One across from us was vacant so long they just took the sign down. It’s still vacant.
Another thing is their histories. Former Slave States: TX, AL, KY, AR, WV, LA, MS. Red States: TX, AL, KY, AR, WV, LA, MS, OK. NM and NY both didn't have slavery and both are Blue. NM's is a large part to their treatment of the indigenous population plus not caring about the state's education. NY is because of NYC being the most expensive city in the world to live in and the northern outstate areas had and have no solution to the loss of manufacturing.
Being red isn’t a problem, every state that was red that you listed except maybe 2 are southern states and the south has been economically behind the rest counties even before the civil war. The problem is not political when it all those examples have been behind for multiple decades. The south is always going to be behind the politics of the south is irrelevant. I wouldn’t live in the Deep South regardless of the political party in charge.
Add Oklahoma to your list of slave states. While it wasn't a "state", part of what made the "5 civilized tribes" civilized was their adaptation of chattel slavery. This actually created a third class of person not encountered outside Oklahoma, freedman. Black slaves that were freed after the fall of the confederacy were incorporated into the tribes, and many added to the Indian Act Dawes rolls. The tribes, like the rest of the country was split on slavery, with abolitionist Indians fleeing to Kansas with many joining the Union Army there, while those whom supported secession stayed in Oklahoma and fought the Union. Most notable, Stand Wadie and his Cherokee Braves.
Actually West Virginia and Oklahoma were never slave states. One of the reasons why West Virginia split off from Virginia is because the counties that made up that area were opposed to slavery. And Oklahoma became a state in 1907, long after slavery was abolished
I am 53yo,what ever happened to 'on the job training'? The middle class did away with that, outsourced and created education debt for jobs that do not pay enough for repayment of college expenses and cost of living. Mexico and Viet Nam for two instances are nore educated than the US? C'mon now. Luv the channel! I am in S. Indiana near Kouisville, Ky
Not all of Kentucky is poor. I live in Louisville, Kentucky which is Jefferson County, and we have tons of jobs here. We are 1hr 30 mins from Indy and Cincinnati and it's great here. It's eastern Kentucky that has the problems. Northern Kentucky is very prosperous. I live right next to one of the wealthiest counties, which is Oldham Co. I hope our state helps those who live in Eastern Kentucky because they are wonderful people💯🇺🇸
I live in the south and I am aware of how poor it is. (My state wasn’t on the list however). You’re right about the beauty of Arkansas and West Virginia, beautiful country in both. I have to admit I love New Orleans, one of my favorite cities anywhere. None of these really surprised me except New York. I had no idea!
I think NY is honestly skewed by data in certain areas, like parts of NYC. I’m also surprised there was no mention of the areas upstate, which are very rural and different from the urban areas in NYC and Long Island.
I would be interested oin the stats if 1st generation immigrants were excluded. You have a lot of poverty from immigrants (not all, but a significant amount), but often, their kids go to college, get a good job and ironically, move out of NYC and into the nearby suburbs.
I agree about West Virginia. We stopped in a State Park when we were coming back from a cross country camping trip and all of us were gob smacked. West Virginia has amazing parks.
I've been up and down economically over the years. I lived in a mansion in South America, had a good paying job in Japan and enjoyed an inheritance for awhile in the states. But when the money ran out and the desire to work for slave wages went away, I learned to adapt to a whole new lifestyle and am actually more happy. Go figure!
The lifestyle where you help take care of someone who has a big house and they give you an almost free place to stay. I cook, do yardwork, volunteer for local projects and take of pets in leue of paying rent. It's great!
The poverty and poor education in Texas is made worse by the illegal immigrants , they take over the lower income neighborhoods and put their kids in public school. Then the school has to slow down their curriculum because the Hispanic kids can’t keep up, because their parents have a 9th grade education and don’t speak English. Then that affects the American kids and puts them behind as well.
@@timothykeith1367Texas is poor far far far far more so from its backwards population of cult adherents and downward look at education outside of major metropolitan areas. Yes there are some nice cities but in other ways social wise its like 80-90 years behind.
Every state listed was not a shocker to me, except for Texas and New York, and I live in Texas. I mean you are absolutely right! I just didn’t know how poor Texas was/it’s poverty rate, etc was. And I’m shocked it’s worse than say Georgia or South Carolina. With New York, same deal- I knew there were a lot of poor people, but didn’t know it was in the top 12 for poorest state.
I own ranches all over TX. Meth and crime out in East Texas. First coal, then can't get quality supplies for manufacturing, now no oil. I'm blessed but I see people struggling hard.
@@phongy45 Worried too much about other countries and running businesses out by.crime, regulations, and unnecessary inflation! I voted for COL. Allen West for Texas governor, Love Chip Roy and Ted Cruz, dislike the city picks, not just because most are Democrats, didn't care for Trump but definitely not Hillary, but after 6 months, every small business to corporations like mine, were all making high yields and able to sub work out to many. I have zero problems with a female president or vice president, BUT, most of of those countries we disagree with and fight, do not deal or respect women. It's a free world for every country is able to live their own ways. We may not like it but that's the way a global society works! Those countries are trying to screw us more while we're all divided! UNITED WE STAND and DIVIDED WE FALL!!!!
Strangely like he said some of the richest people on Earth live here. But here it's the government that keeps people in poverty. You can't save money, you can't have a car, if you study the government do everything they can to push you away from your career! Believe it or not!!! I used to be an x-ray tech who relocated to NY to continue my career, earn more and have a better state of living. The result? Long story short I ended up homeless, lost my medical career and now live in poverty and all the fault of the government I assure you. And I have sports therapists, ICU technicians, cardiopulmonary techs, etc. ALL lost their professions in one way or the other because of the government. But we all have another thing in common were relocated here to Rochester and we are NOT Caucasians. Caucasians are usually never poor here and get a lot of help from the government. That is further complicated by the fact that this city is probably one of the most racist cities in US!!!🤮
@@joey8567 what's up with Lubbock Texas? What out there? They got a lot of new houses been built there and are there jobs there?🤔? What kind of jobs are they?
I consider trade schools to be education. But I am blown away by the number of people that believe that education is a bad thing (my family). I think we can work our way out of poverty but only if we are willing to do what it takes.
My grandfather was an immigrant to this country and he had a 3rd grade education. My father dropped out of high school to fight in WW2. I graduated high school and entered an apprenticeship program and worked for 40 years in good jobs. Both of my kids graduated from university and have even better jobs than I did. Education is the key to success!
You have to be in at least a swing state to even have hope of minimum wage getting raised before 2028. Imagine being in 2028 and minimum wage is still $7.25/hr.
My first "real" job where I worked fulltime, was a mostly summer construction job while in high school and into college. I was hired to do piece work or by the unit, installing aluminum studs in new condos complexes out near the everglades and made $100 per eight to ten hour day and worked a lot of weekends. That was roughly up to $12.50 per hour. It was a hard, never stopping and constantly hustling work day but this was in 1975. My apartment was a two bedroom that I shared with a friend and the rent was $150 including utilities split between us. Back then in Florida, a gallon of milk was around $0.65 and new custom built home was between $25,000 to $35,000 if you wanted to live on a waterway. My family opted to spend the higher amount in order to live on one of the many canals in Fort Lauderdale. We moved into our brand new home when I entered fifth grade at McNab Elementary. My mom and dad sold it after their divorce a few years later. That same house recently sold for over $3,500,000! I recently retired early and moved from the LA/Ventura area of CA and now am able to live like a Rey (King) a couple miles from a beautiful beach in Mexico on less than $1,500us per month! If you are able, utilize geographic arbitrage to improve your overall quality of life. I just got home from a quick surf and a lunch of fresh caught fish tacos con todo for $1.30us each. I am in my hammock on the palm frond roofed patio where I can see the ocean and surf and about to drift off while listening to the muffled sound of mariachi music off in the distance..... Buena suerte!
The quiet part about coal; coal isn’t as valuable as oil and gas. It costs too much to mine and transport for the amount of energy output almost everywhere in the USA.
My state was heavily dependent on one industry, and when that industry went bust it hit us hard, by the time the 2009 global recession hit we already were in recession for several years. Luckily since then we have done a pretty decent job at diversifying our economy, but certain areas here are still feeling the lasting impacts of the original crash
@@adrienaugustin6520 My state is Michigan, and of course the dominant industry was the automotive industry. Our economy has diversified since but there is no doubt that there is still work to be done. I would love to see the state have a little something for everyone
@@feleciawallace8420 Michigan has some wonderful places to visit and it is such a beautiful state too. I may be biased, but I swear that Michigan is one of the most severely underrated states out there.
None on the list were really surprising, except New York. However, after hearing my sister in law talk about her experiences there, it really doesn't surprise me. Most of the state suffers from a discouraging culture as I understand it. I was told that corrupt people run most of the state, not just NYC. Corrupt leadership demands payments which creates an added tax which discourages new and small business formation. They do offer better opportunities at health care for the disadvantaged compared to many other states as I understand it.
If you go to the Bronx where there is so much poverty, etc you will find plenty of people who are illiterate and can't even speak English and you will find some of the most motivated people on the planet as well. I would like to see some statistics on how many kids show up age 5 to their first day of school not knowing a single word of English, as both my parents told me they did. Imagine being a teacher in a school where you are supposed to be teaching kids and you first have to teach them English. I bet New Mexico has a similar problem as well.
@@ninatrabona4629 I don't know about NYC's school system, but most school systems have ESL programs to accommodate non-English speakers. Learning would be insanely difficult otherwise.
@@bikeyclown4669 I don't know if they have ESL programs now but they have whole classes in the student's native languages when there are enough students to justify it.
Oklahoma, has booming areas then we have rural areas where few have any money. The state needs to work on growth throughout the state. The rural areas need to work on getting better paying jobs closer to the small towns. The land, lakes, and wildlife are beautiful in Oklahoma, we need to develop tourism!Like many others we live out in the country but I drive about 40 plus miles to work in Tulsa where there are good jobs. He is right about the land, especially in the rural areas. By living 40 miles outside the Tulsa we have been able to buy land Ave build a much nicer house than we could have afforded closer to Tulsa or Oklahoma City.
@@SgtJoeSmith I am sure most would immediately respond by saying lack of money, however I believe what is really stopping them is fear of failure. That fear makes many small towns afraid dreaming big and trying new things.
Briggs. I agree with you about fixing up New Orleans. I have been 3 times in the past year but the first time I went, last year, I was in tears about the overall conditions of the city. Don’t get me wrong I love it, the jazz, the food and drink, the history, and the unique-ness are great but fix the sidewalks! ❤️ from 🇨🇦
@michaelthomas9440 I don’t disagree that it is hairy there, pun intended. NOLA is so much more than just Bourbon St and Mardi Gras. Just hope that they can turn it around someday. ❤️ from 🇨🇦
New Orleans - is a dirty city, the bums / homeless are extremely nasty... after my first visit a few years ago I decided then I'd never return... I had hope Katrina 20 years ago would've washed away the bums and the filth... but it's still bad in my opinion....
Universal Healthcare and Affordable Housing have an outsized role in reducing and eliminating poverty. It sets a solid floor for people to reasonably work up from. It’s difficult being a student, even with the best education available, when you’re sick or homeless.
@Fakeaorta I mean business. I want the government out of life and out of my face. But hey if you guy's give up the right to vote "something you don't deserve to have in the first place" I'd be more than willing to hook yall up, with all the free tax payer garbage ya want👌
@@FakeaortaI agree with you. I think that health care providers are as important of a service to society, if not more important, as police and firefighters. Nobody ever suggests that firefighting and police be replaced by for-profit businesses. Can you imagine how expensive life would be if you had deductibles and copays for every time you needed the police or firefighters? Plus, health care empowers the workers. If you aren’t worried about losing your health insurance, you can leave your work more easily. Employers wouldn’t like losing that bargaining chip because they lose the power to exploit their workers.
If these states, but mostly the Southern states actually invested in ALL of its people regardless of race and social class (in education, healthcare, jobs and affordable housing), they would raise the quality of life for everyone and make their state a good place to live. I lived in Texas for 17 years and we have the most people with no healthcare insurance and the educational system is wanting in most places, unless you are white and wealthy. I also think the move for home schooling and charter schools has worsened the situation. And no I am not a teacher.
Texas and New York surprised me. I think the core problem is inequitable distribution of wealth and income. Both are fixable as both states have a lot of educated, smart and creative people along with massive amount wealth (oil, stock market...) that just need to be distributed differently. Texas should discontinue its no income tax policy as it is unrealistic and unfair to the poor. In case of Texas, attracting corporation with the promise of no state taxes leaves the state with no funds for updating the infrastructure and educational system.
If people in other states realized how truly beautiful Arkansas is, more people would vacation and retire here. But we are going to need better education and more accessible healthcare.
Love when Hillary Clinton Said that West Virginia needed to move away from Coal and wanted to help to establish a new future for the state, but she was hated for that and Trump just said he loves coal and WV was in his pocket
BUT: Donald Trump vowed to revive the coal industry, but it’s President Joe Biden who’s seeing a big comeback of the dirtiest fossil fuel. U.S. power plants are on track to burn 23% more coal this year, the first increase since 2013. Bidens "Build Back Better" gave West Virgina 6 illion while Trump gave Zip, nothing.
I'm more of a beach person, but have to say that WV is probably the most beautiful state I have ever been to. I have been to 49 states more than once. I agree that tourism would help the state a lot. BEAUTIFUL!
i’m from California and I recently took a road trip through the deep south, honestly Utah, Nevada and California is the only America i’ve ever known. When I drove through Louisiana and Mississippi I couldn’t believe the level of poverty that exists in the richest country on earth! I’m honestly kinda outraged that there’s nothing being done to help these people. They were some of the kindest people i’ve ever met too! But when I told them I was from California I always got a “I’d never live there too many liberals” but they don’t understand that they are voting against their own interests 😔
Your logic makes no sense. Explain to me then why Tennessee is doing so well and that state is hard-core red . Same with Idaho and Montana. All 3 Doing really really well. All 3 deep red. So make it make sense. Edit: you can include Florida as a state that is doing very financially well
@@reenakemp9132 I’m sorry I should have been more clear, i’m not trying to say it’s because it’s a red state. They vote for corrupt officials! The party affiliation is irrelevant if there’s corruption
@JBoy340a You haven't looked at how we vote here have you.. examine the other states then. Explain Utah.. you can't. Look at areas of Tennessee that are also extremely prosperous. Knoxville, Maryville, Sevierville and the Smoky Mountains, that is actually the most expensive area of the state to live in a d buy a home in. Hard-core red and we voted in Tim Burchett for goodness. You also realize we have a Senator Marsha Balckburn and this state, for some reason, LOVES her.. and she is as red as it gets. So try again. I'm sure you agree with OP. Yet you can't explain why TN, MT, ID, FL, UT are all doing well. You won't be able to lol. Most only point to Nashville even though East Tennessee is why the state is prosperous. #1 state income is tourism. All you have to do is look at the very red voting Appalachain mountains and the GSMNP to see where all the states money comes from.
I know that there is one political party that generally does support job skills training, more investment in public education, and better access to healthcare, and one party doesn't. And Alabama is unlikely to change unless its political leaders and the people who vote for them drastically change. Also, yes, we really need to stop using coal, at least at the levels we do today. Btw, congratulations! Briggs didn't blame "brutal winters" for high rates of poverty!
Very interesting video! I'm not happy living here in the state of Illinois, but I'm more thankful I don't live in any of these southern states, and not just because of the poverty, but the ridiculous amount of insects and the lack of excitement in most of those states. New York and Texas making this list surprised me, but at least those 2 states are still worth visiting.
@@OldBastard-dj6erYes of course the lack of excitement in most southern states would make me miserable if I were living there. And why did you bring out clubs and shoot-outs? No that's not my thing. Why would it be? I'm trying to stay alive. I don't want to get drunk or shot.
Maybe there should be a way agriculture jobs can be more sustainable? Without them... nobody eats. It is hard honorable work. It isn't glamorous, but it is supremely important.
I was surprised by Texas making this list. For the past few years all I have heard about Texas was how great it is-a regular heaven on earth. New York State was also a surprise. All of the rest of the states on the list were expected.
I would have agreed 2 months ago. I was in Houston for a convention and the number of homeless and people that appeared struggling far outpaced what I see in Portland, Oregon.
New York upstate is full of Rust Belt cities and towns that really suffered when these industries pulled out or died. Amsterdam - carpets is a perfect example.
I heard (could be false) that upstate NY had the fewest indoor bathrooms of any U.S. state. You have to trudge outdoors to the little house with the crescent moon in all weather conditions.
South? Check. Appalachia? Check. If not New Mexico, Arizona - both look decent in Albuquerque/Phoenix/etc., but look decidedly threadbare once you're out in the country. I wonder about working poor, people who make good money but are broke because of the high cost of living.
States that surprised: Texas and New York. Also surprising: you frequently mentioned that a state's reliance on agriculture as a negative. Given that everybody needs food and clothing, I would think that agriculture should be an overall reliable source of employment...
Agriculture can be a great lifestyle when your family owns the farm or ranch. But, other folks living out there might struggle. There aren't enough mid-sized cities in many vast agricultural regions.
Alabama had a thriving textile industry once, but it went overseas when China's market was opened up. Environmentalism shut down or severely reduced most of Alabama's iron mines and its steel industry. It used to have a thriving wood pulp industry for making paper, but the internet ruined that. All it really had left was its agricultural industry. These days, it does have some auto manufacturers and some aerospace, but not much else and not everybody lives in the counties that have the auto plants. Its history and the people's conservatism prevent businesses from locating to Alabama. The kids who are better educated end up leaving the State, so there is brain drain going on. If Alabama invests in education, we end up with more kids leaving because there aren't any jobs to keep them here.
The problem with agriculture is that family farms don't produce a W2. You can raise a hundred cattle, grow a garden, grill steaks every day, sell a few steers at an auction, spend that to buy a new 200k tractor, but at the end of yhe year, on your personal taxes, you made 10k dollars... so... poverty...
The poverty and poor education in Texas is made worse by the illegal immigrants , they take over the lower income neighborhoods and put their kids in public school. Then the school has to slow down their curriculum because the Hispanic kids can’t keep up, because their parents have a 9th grade education and don’t speak English. Then that affects the American kids and puts them behind as well.
So basically all but 1 is a Red State, that tells you all you need to know. Political beliefs plays a huge part in poverty because it causes all of the down stream affects touched upon. Lack of: Education Healthcare Infrastructure Job diversity (can't attract employers) Republicans were never big on the first 3, they've never cared about the poor and see them as a burden not recognizing it's their policies that contribute the most in creating the problem.
With the current attack on education from groups like Mom's for Liberty it will be ages before any red state turns around. Now new York is a prime example of greed at its worst we could have everyone housed especially in New York if we had such a thing as affordable housing not just set off to the side for poor people with the actual overall prices were affordable.
West Virginia had it bad enough with the loss of coal, but they made it worse. Sometime back in the... eighties?... they changed the tax policy, and what industry they had immediately moved out of the state. Huntington, my college town, lost several industrial businesses, and the population dropped from 90,000 to around 50,000 (they say; I'd estimate it as around 40,000). If not for Marshall University, Huntington would be a ghost town. Even my tiny home town, Buckhannon, lost business, and a couple thousand people of the seven thousand it had. Again, Buckhannon is largely relying on the college, West Virginia Wesleyan, to keep it above water.
Team Less than $40K annual earnings checking in 😂
Damn son, go back to school or sumn 😂
That’s less than my yearly rent in NYC 😬
That's only 10k more than my rent. I would starve.
Lol
I make twice my states minimum wage and I'm at 21k a year. I'm shocked my state, Iowa, wasn't on this list.
I am a trucker and last week I was on I-20 from Dallas heading east out of Texas…. I saw a super long line of cars on the side of the road next to the interstate… I thought is people dropping their kids off for school…. Nope…. It was for a food bank…. I was saddened by the sight….
I live in deep East TX. It is a region of the have and have nots. Tremendous wealth and utter poverty and not much in between. They are working at upgrading internet access so hopefully that will help. It is next to impossible to thrive in the modern world without fast, reliable internet access which is currently not available in most of East Texas.
Yep a state with large areas that look down upon education.
@@lijohnyoutube101 Ah, education. The entire country is doing a horrible job of educating people today. You can look it up. NAEP and Annie Casey list the test scores.
I work north of Seattle in a town called Everett and I was working outside a food bank and there was cars lined up there but a lot these people had nicer newer cars than I do, bmw Mercedes. I make decent money also.
The majority of poor states are red states. What happened to the fiscal conservative repuglicums and their work ethic?
Love this channel! I'm not surprised by New York. I was raised in NY and lived there for over 25 years. The cost of living is so high it's not enough to have earn income that would be considered middle to upper middle class income.
Agree completely about the importance of learning a trade. Not everyone needs to go to college
as a college professor, I totally agree
One , the elite freemasons have forgotten is that GUILDS and mystery schools were the TRADES and collages . . . .two , without the trades we wouldn't have the damn buildings lined with the infrastructure ( water / sewer / electricity . . . etc.
@@zimmejoc as for collage professor's . . . . I like my background better.
I didn't finish past the ninth grade of HS . . . .self educated with a strong ability too see outside of the mainstream crapbox ; ) . . . . a polymath of sorts , I have a wealth of multiple trade experiences in my grab bag of knowledge . . . .I can fix my vehicles turn around and repair the front porch OR hop in a semi and do a long haul . . . . .. as for now I do believe that I will digress.
We could have 2 years of college paid or trade school for Everyone and then we would have a trained work force to assure that America doesn't fall further behind. Or we can stop public education, give out tax dollars to the wealthy, and watch as our nation crumbles as others surpass us.
If you don't put your tax dollars into social programs, you will Still pay taxes, but you'll have no idea where they're going.
Again, you Will Still pay taxes. No "side" is getting rid of them, no New party would either. Even if you don't get the benefits of paying them, you could at least see them at work, or choose not to.
But everyone DOES need to learn history! We’re one of the luckiest countries in history - and it’s not because we’re better people.
In rural E. Texas in the Cotton area their was a textile industry , and all over the south . When the politicians lowered the duties worldwide for Textiles .All the industries left ,this has hurt many rural communities most of our Cotton gets exported all over the world. These products clothes ,blankets ,sheets ,has left the country.
'There' was
I was born and raised in southeast Texas and I saw nothing but poverty and misery everywhere I turned . That's why when I was old enough I joined the military , left , and never went back .
Yup, we really DO need to return to MAKING things again in this country! We need to divest ourselves from China! You buy things from China and it only helps to make their Military stronger!
So, after the government stopped protecting the industry, it couldn't compete. Makes sense.
Thank you for your service. Regardless of why you enlisted.
It’s not the people , it’s just who they’re electing…. So it IS the people… They’re the ones voting!
Thank you mentioning that! The voters dictate how the politicians act and how they vote. I absolutely hate to admit this but we really can’t blame Congress for not getting things done. They are only voting the way their people want them to vote
Disagree…all of those who run for office tend to be in it for the money and /or power, with little interest in doing things that benefit the people. We should stop voting for the lesser of two evils…
A lot of the "fixes" required to reduce the level of poverty in these states, or anywhere, are considered to be concepts of "communism" or "socialism."" You know how members of a certain party hate those terms. Btw, most of these states have severely restricted abortion, or family planning in general. That's not going to help bring down the poverty rates, either.
@@gogreen7794actually access to abortion and birth control for people in poverty does help. For example, the extreme drop in crime back in the late 90s/early 2000s had a direct correlation with poor women having access to birth control and abortion in the late 70s/early 80s. The crime rate dropped across the US because there were fewer males between the ages of 13-25 born in to poverty in the late 90s/early 2000s
@@lizhoward9754- no, they aren’t. They’re voting the way people pay them to vote. They care only about the donations they make by corporations and big donors. They don’t care whether they represent their constituents at all.
New Mexico should also focus on eco tourism. Very pretty state
How isn’t the whole state desert
Yeah, Santa Fe is one of my wish to go places
@@hs5312once you go north of Albuquerque and east of there it’s very beautiful all the way to the Colorado border. You have the white sands and elephants butte in the south. It’s an incredibly diverse region and has some large mountain ranges. Never understood why it’s so poor and devoid of opportunities. It’s sandwiched between some powerhouse states.
@@hs5312nah, Sandia Mountain near Albuquerque is a gorgeous place to hike.
@@CeruleanSky1111 LA is full of private property and still poor
The governor of Arkansas does not want to invest in education.
I live in Pennsylvania but my heart is in West Virginia.
I like the "solutions" focus of the segments. I like this channel, keep it going!
I was surprised that Tennessee (where I live) didn't make the list. Surrounded by Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama, how did we escape.
5:40 you don’t always need to go to trade school to get into the trades, some companies offer apprenticeships
Most trades people make more than teachers.
Very true. I was focusing on school vs training.
@@megb9700 I got my friend a plumbing apprenticeship at my old company and after a year and a half of hard work hes making great money. Granted it’s in San Diego, the new most expensive city in the country
Alabama had courses to get you a job in trades. I moved to Ohio and couldn't get any plumbing company to hire me. So going into IT instead!
Free courses***
I wanted to go to New Orleans my entire life. When we finally went, I was horrified. They really need to clean up that city if they want people to spend $$ there. There were people who were acting out aggressively everywhere. I assume they were homeless, which is sad, but I didn't feel safe walking around in broad daylight. It was such a sad experience.
As a New Orleans native, I'll put it this way...when moving to Las Vegas lessens your daily interaction with violent crime, infrastructure issues and political shenanigans, giving you a much more normal life...that's a MAJOR red flag.
@@MissCleo24 It was really sad and a little scary. I will say ALL the people working in the hotels, stores and restaurants were so friendly. It was the people all over the streets that were scary. I could see how it was once and could be an amazing town. If you do go, I recommend making restaurant reservations in advance. They really book up.
@@RobdaVegasMailman I am not even a city person, but I've spent a lot of time in Vegas. We lived in Colorado and would go to Vegas at least once a year. The last time we went was 2021. The whole family went. It changed a lot after the pandemic.
@@backyardbreeze112 I can respect that. The pandemic changed a great deal of things...none of them for the good.
I went Nola overrated and overpriced Jackson Square homeless hanging around ms river was kool though pretty deep in that area saw numerous boats😅
I agree with you about West Virginia. It’s gorgeous and should focus on tourism.
more and more people are visting National parks and nature sites, the fact that WV has failed to invest in tourism just shows how incompetent thier leaders are. im not surprised that some of thier politicans own stock in the coal mines, and hasnt allowed the state to diversify its economy
No. They refuse. They're still in love with King Coal. Trump convinced them that windmill power lets their TVs go out when the wind dies, and solar only works when the sun shines.
Eco-tourism and alternative energy could save them, but they're stuck in their own Uncle Tom mindset and more concerned with the profits of coal execs than their own well being.
Nothing here but pill heads and meth monsters.
God bless WV
@@DarrellRoberts-kz1bo Sadly I have family from WV. Sadder still what I sad is all to true. I've got cousins who are LEOs and EMTs in the state.
Texas will never improve as long as we keep electing the type of people that we’ve been electing. Definitely need to improve the schools and healthcare.
I agree. Today they will scream the migrants are taking all the money. Bad schools didn’t just happen.
California is calling you.
Sounds like you are admitting that California has better healthcare and schools.
Im from Oklahoma. There was no good paying jobs and education sucked. Never going back.
I know
I live in California there is no middle class any more if you make less then 80,000 you are poor
False, new car payment and 5 bedroom rental they say I BROKE 😅😅😅 when theyre middle class
You always speak highly of my state and I appreciate that. I do hope it turns around here in WV. I’m privileged enough to make a good living here. I want those opportunities for others.
It seems like such a gorgeous state, with a really wonderful population. I wish it well. I hope that the drug epidemic passes it by, that education improves, and that new industries flourish. If that all came to fruition, I’d move there in a heartbeat. If not, I’m afraid there’s no hope for West Virginia.
Love from New York City, I hope West Virginia booms with tourism one day and gets wealthy again.
Only been by once but you got mts like NH very pretty state and a lot better then so manys places in USA your blessed trust me the East Coast all the way to Maine has changed ...
It's impossible for all states to be equal, but it's possible to get to where even the poorest state isn't exactly destitute.
Christians are geared toward facism
@kent... Are you saying a person could do well and be happy in a very poor state like Mississippi? If so, I agree. And like Arkansas, the north west is supposed to be very nice.
What is sad is states like Mississippi and Arkansas and West Virginia would be third world countries without the federal government. I doubt they would even have public education, medicine and few paved roads if the federal government didn’t help them out.
@@lizhoward9754 hmmm, never thought of it that way.
Unfortunately that might mean raising Federal taxes, and we know how SOME people feel
about raising taxes that will be spent on someone else. I propose a 75 cent a day Universal
Basic Income for all post-adolescent humans on the planet to promote agriculture worldwide.
Never again will someone have to say of another: She/He doesn't know where their next meal
is coming from.
He couldn't be more accurate than his accessment of 2 Statesvim very familiar with. My dad was born in Perry County Alabama in 1928 and we had yearly reunions on their land until my Grandfather passed in 87. I'm the oldest, I was born in Texas where although unemployment rates are low, people living in Poverty is high with around 30% of the children living in poverty. Texas actually recruit companies touting low wage and many come here because benefits aren't required. I'm retired and currently live in Guadalupe County, if my neighbors aren't employed by the City or County they travel to Austin, San Antonio with one traveling over 150 miles to Houston. Local companies for the most part don't offer a living wage or benefits.
Damn...
Government jobs are the only way to get retirements due to them being allowed to unionize. Also great benefits. I should have gone that route but did get some retirement from a Catholic Hospital group. They had to quit offering retirement to new hires about ten years ago. Non-government union jobs are mainly up North I think.
Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas.
Why is it always you three? 😂
In no particular order 😂😂. They could honestly just blend into one state. One could make a case for Alabama joining that state lol
It's all the Norwegians who live there. Blame them.
Racist, Racist, Racist...
Thank you for the video! I was a little expecting my state, Maryland to come out. Besides we have the highest mean salary in USA, the unequality is awful. You can go to Great Falls where all the lobbysts live and compare these castles with the suburbs close to South East DC, go to Baltimore and you will see the true about Maryland. The lucky ones with education got for free in Russia (I am one of them), China and India feel very well while locals are struggling. My wife is from a poor family of Dominican immigrants, so I know how poor people live in DMV area. If USA is not investing in education, it is not gonna exist
In the US, education is fundamentally at the State and local levels. The federal level has been trying to push education, but they can only do so much since the US Constitution give sthat power to the States.
No way for Maryland
"EDUCATED PEOPLE DON'T VOTE REPUBLICAN said by Rick Santorum republican presidential candidate. See the problem. Republicans hate an educated voter.
Maryland has the 3rd lowest poverty rate in the country
@@kellz7313 if it is the data from Census Bureau, as I know, they have only one poverty theshold for every state and area. Maryland is very expensive, so the real poverty can be much higher
Whole country is going to shit. Education doesn’t do anything if their are no good jobs to be had. Trades are only good if people have money to pay for the services. Fact is this country lost most of the manufacturing jobs. Without a large manufacturing base you will not have a robust economy. Unless we bring all these jobs back from Mexico, China, India, etc it won’t get any better. Can’t support a family working at Wal-Mart.
Doggone it
Union should be outlaw because it destroy jobs.
I grew up in Texas 1950s through 1972. It's a bit of political hell. Even the school books are censored. There was quite a bit of debate before schoolbooks could disclose Texans did not win at the battle for the Alamo. Their post K-12 educational system was horrible when I lived there. There was no free community college. The motto of the Texas state legislature is " Nobody gave me nothin', and we ain't giving you nothin'".
I moved to California worked for 6 months, became a California citizen, and went to LACC for free plus books. I got a job with educational benifits, went to school at night, got an engineering degree and retired as a principal computer systems engineer at a Fortune 20 company in San Diego. You couldn't do that in Texas in the 70s.
You could not escape poverty by working hard. To escape poverty, you had to escape Texas.
These conservative guys seem to hate all forms of government spending for the sake of good but they have no problem with the military budget
I like conservative states. Texas has a foundation unlike California which must fail because it is artificial and unrealistic.
Today, California is hell. They want to give away everything to everyone. My kid went out of state college for cheaper than in-state. California prioritizes illegals over their citizen.
You think you could do that in California today?
@@mystrickerieif you had family you could live with. Its pretty expensive
With regard to New Mexico: Yes, Guadalupe County is dirt poor, but it also has fewer than five-thousand people, so I doubt it's a significant driver of the state's poverty statistics. On the other hand, I'm genuinely curious to know where New Mexico would stand in the aggregate poverty rankings if all the tribal reservations weren't included.
I’m Surprised by Texas and New York being on the list!
The poverty and poor education in Texas is made worse by the illegal immigrants , they take over the lower income neighborhoods and put their kids in public school.
Then the school has to slow down their curriculum because the Hispanic kids can’t keep up, because their parents have a 9th grade education and don’t speak English.
Then that affects the American kids and puts them behind as well.
Why? Texas is a hellhole of poverty, cult worship and anti education outside of the major metropolitan hubs.
Not surprised Texas is on the list.
@@lizhoward9754Exactly the rio grande valley in South Texas is very poor part of Texas
@@thecoach11 yeah. I have been through parts of Texas and was appalled at what I saw. And that is saying something since I am acquainted with Appalachia’s (KY, TN and VA). Talk about poverty and third world living
Being a Louisianian, New Orleans has long been a corrupt city almost incapable of being cleaned up. Many years ago, the state legislature gave New Orleans 25 M to improve their school test scores. After 3 years, the test scores actually got worse, but to top that the money just disappeared. Prevailing thought is that corrupt administrators just pocketed the money. No one really looked into it.
You Racist Bigots Always Point At New Orleans But When You Get Right To It New Orleans Is The Only Reason That Many People Come To This Shit Hole State .I Know This Because I Live In B R And I Work In N O.
Nearly All Are Republican Run, Red Shit Hole States .
Remember: there is nothing wrong or shameful about being poor.
Yes there is poor women are more likely to be kidnaped.
You missed the point completely.@@drdjacoby
I'm sure that it's a great honor, instead.
Clearly you have no concept of honor. You are dismissed.@@josesolismusic
There is something wrong with state and federal government failing to help people, though. I think that's what the video is trying to say.
Trade school education is more valuable then a college degree now… You can make more being an hvac technician then a teacher, nurse, accountant, physical therapist, etc because there is such a big shortage of workers in those types of jobs.
That’s the truth. I have a neighbor couple that are teachers and I worked in telecommunications as a tech. My income was about what they both made together. They would complain about that until we figured the hours they worked per year.Most teachers only work about 1500 hours a year.
My guy makes over 100k a year working for an electrical contractor…. As a journeyman!! Trade schools are the way to go!!!
sad poverty exists
It really is.
@@WorldAccordingToBriggs also love the content keep it up
The reason New Mexico is so much poorer than Arizona is that way back when the United States first started divvying up water rights to the Colorado River, New Mexico got the short end of the stick Arizona got a much better deal, and California got the best deal of all. They haven't changed it since. You can't do much without water.
They didn't "divy up" the water rights. Water rights in the west go to the first ones to use the water. California was the first state to build aquaducts to use the Colorado River water. That's why their water rights take precedent over other states. Then Arizona built the Central Arizona Project, which brought Colorado River water to Phoenix and Tucson. New Mexico doesn't have Colorado River water rights because they never built aquaducts to use the water.
@@LuckyBaldwin777 Thank you for the correction. I didn't know that.
@DoloresJNurss no problem. I didn't know that either until they announced water cuts from the Colorado last year. I wondered why California got the least cuts when they take the most water. That's what I found out when I looked into it.
@@LuckyBaldwin777 California provides the most food for the country. So, their water supply is pretty important. They also have by far the most people and are one of the largest economies in the world. The country needs a healthy California to succeed.
@don951 you left out California taxpayers support the 5 or 6 poorest states. I agree with you it makes good sense for the country to maintain a healthy California. Unfortunately, water rights aren't based on good sense, they're based on archaic laws.
What do all but 2 of these have on common.... Red States. Try something new to make things better. Definition of insanity is doing same thing over and over but expecting different outcome
Doesn’t matter if the president is a drooling moron who’s ruining the country from the top down.
Ttump2024.
As a resident in Mississippi, I would like to point out that you spelled Virginia incorrectly.
How’s living in Mississippi for the young ?
@@Yntstax depends on where in Mississippi
😂😂😅😂. Good one. But I always tell folks blame google spell check and it's not a spelling b. 🤣
@@joey8567 ...
Because his education is most likely suspect.
As an outsider who has not yet been to the USA, I can confirm that the states you have shown, especially the southern states, are viewed by many foreigners as highly romantic and there is huge scope to expand tourism. Not that any healthy economy can be based on one thing, especially something as variable as tourism. But it is one example of a potential source of improvement. Thank you for the video.
We have a christian infestation. Nasty little creatures! Full of hate and ignorance. Proud ignorance.
I would love to know whats romantic about Alabama 😅😂
@@HombreWithAnOmbre toothlessness🐽
@@HombreWithAnOmbreur sister coming out the shower on a cold winters morning and the door is creaked open just enough so u can see in on the mirror and she just standing there naked. Ok I'll stop
"especially the southern states, are viewed by many foreigners as highly romantic"
You serious?
I'm from The Bronx, poverty here is very severe. They don't like seeing us with anything.
More they just don’t care. If you can get it, great. If not, they don’t care
Ex New Yorker here , how many people in The Bronx never worker a day in their life , and never pay a bill , but “ qualify “ as poverty ?
Bronx is ghetto.
Mississippi is number one. Mississippi is a state sized time capsule. The leaves don’t even fall off the trees. The only way you know time passes is the combined teeth and diabetes delta. Most people started with all their teeth and feet.
I'm from outside Mobile.. only a few of us know how much truth you just spoke 😂😂
@@reenakemp9132 I'm over in Gulfport...Alabama aint that far behind.
@@BPD1586 Solidarity ✊️... 😂😂
I agree, West Virginia is beautiful.
My wife and I have been to NOLA 5 times. Four were pre COVID and once since. The City is awful now. Just totally frightening.
Had I not moved to Texas, this would have surprised me. There is definitely a big discrepancy. I live in the suburbs and right now a lot of homes are vacant. One across from us was vacant so long they just took the sign down. It’s still vacant.
Because Texas trying to cater to the people moving from states like California and raising the prices up on everything
Another thing is their histories. Former Slave States: TX, AL, KY, AR, WV, LA, MS. Red States: TX, AL, KY, AR, WV, LA, MS, OK.
NM and NY both didn't have slavery and both are Blue. NM's is a large part to their treatment of the indigenous population plus not caring about the state's education. NY is because of NYC being the most expensive city in the world to live in and the northern outstate areas had and have no solution to the loss of manufacturing.
Being red isn’t a problem, every state that was red that you listed except maybe 2 are southern states and the south has been economically behind the rest counties even before the civil war. The problem is not political when it all those examples have been behind for multiple decades. The south is always going to be behind the politics of the south is irrelevant. I wouldn’t live in the Deep South regardless of the political party in charge.
I wonder why New Mexico doesn’t have a strong manufacturing sector the way Arizona does. Their weather is way more mild in NM.
Add Oklahoma to your list of slave states. While it wasn't a "state", part of what made the "5 civilized tribes" civilized was their adaptation of chattel slavery. This actually created a third class of person not encountered outside Oklahoma, freedman. Black slaves that were freed after the fall of the confederacy were incorporated into the tribes, and many added to the Indian Act Dawes rolls. The tribes, like the rest of the country was split on slavery, with abolitionist Indians fleeing to Kansas with many joining the Union Army there, while those whom supported secession stayed in Oklahoma and fought the Union. Most notable, Stand Wadie and his Cherokee Braves.
Actually West Virginia and Oklahoma were never slave states. One of the reasons why West Virginia split off from Virginia is because the counties that made up that area were opposed to slavery. And Oklahoma became a state in 1907, long after slavery was abolished
I am 53yo,what ever happened to 'on the job training'? The middle class did away with that, outsourced and created education debt for jobs that do not pay enough for repayment of college expenses and cost of living. Mexico and Viet Nam for two instances are nore educated than the US? C'mon now. Luv the channel! I am in S. Indiana near Kouisville, Ky
Millennial here
I get trained a week and I'm expected to know everything😅
@@Nev1812 yes that is the New Way.
Not all of Kentucky is poor. I live in Louisville, Kentucky which is Jefferson County, and we have tons of jobs here. We are 1hr 30 mins from Indy and Cincinnati and it's great here. It's eastern Kentucky that has the problems. Northern Kentucky is very prosperous. I live right next to one of the wealthiest counties, which is Oldham Co. I hope our state helps those who live in Eastern Kentucky because they are wonderful people💯🇺🇸
I live in the south and I am aware of how poor it is. (My state wasn’t on the list however). You’re right about the beauty of Arkansas and West Virginia, beautiful country in both. I have to admit I love New Orleans, one of my favorite cities anywhere. None of these really surprised me except New York. I had no idea!
I think NY is honestly skewed by data in certain areas, like parts of NYC. I’m also surprised there was no mention of the areas upstate, which are very rural and different from the urban areas in NYC and Long Island.
I would be interested oin the stats if 1st generation immigrants were excluded. You have a lot of poverty from immigrants (not all, but a significant amount), but often, their kids go to college, get a good job and ironically, move out of NYC and into the nearby suburbs.
People are moving out of New York state. The taxes and regulations are stealing peoples' money and driving business out.
New York is the landing spot for a lot immigrants on the east coast. So, geography has a lot to do with it.
West Virginia is several orders of magnitude above Arkansas when it comes to natural beauty. Not even the same contest.
It would be nice if you could tell us the population of the poor counties, or it's percentage of the state population. Great Job!
I agree about West Virginia. We stopped in a State Park when we were coming back from a cross country camping trip and all of us were gob smacked. West Virginia has amazing parks.
I've been up and down economically over the years. I lived in a mansion in South America, had a good paying job in Japan and enjoyed an inheritance for awhile in the states. But when the money ran out and the desire to work for slave wages went away, I learned to adapt to a whole new lifestyle and am actually more happy. Go figure!
What’s the style?
The lifestyle where you help take care of someone who has a big house and they give you an almost free place to stay. I cook, do yardwork, volunteer for local projects and take of pets in leue of paying rent. It's great!
I'm surprised by Texas and Mississippi is no surprise.
Texas draws a lot of low income people - especially from Mexico and Central America..
The poverty and poor education in Texas is made worse by the illegal immigrants , they take over the lower income neighborhoods and put their kids in public school.
Then the school has to slow down their curriculum because the Hispanic kids can’t keep up, because their parents have a 9th grade education and don’t speak English.
Then that affects the American kids and puts them behind as well.
@@timothykeith1367Texas is poor far far far far more so from its backwards population of cult adherents and downward look at education outside of major metropolitan areas. Yes there are some nice cities but in other ways social wise its like 80-90 years behind.
Every state listed was not a shocker to me, except for Texas and New York, and I live in Texas. I mean you are absolutely right! I just didn’t know how poor Texas was/it’s poverty rate, etc was. And I’m shocked it’s worse than say Georgia or South Carolina. With New York, same deal- I knew there were a lot of poor people, but didn’t know it was in the top 12 for poorest state.
I own ranches all over TX. Meth and crime out in East Texas. First coal, then can't get quality supplies for manufacturing, now no oil. I'm blessed but I see people struggling hard.
poor and incompetent leaders
@@phongy45
Worried too much about other countries and running businesses out by.crime, regulations, and unnecessary inflation! I voted for COL. Allen West for Texas governor, Love Chip Roy and Ted Cruz, dislike the city picks, not just because most are Democrats, didn't care for Trump but definitely not Hillary, but after 6 months, every small business to corporations like mine, were all making high yields and able to sub work out to many. I have zero problems with a female president or vice president, BUT, most of of those countries we disagree with and fight, do not deal or respect women. It's a free world for every country is able to live their own ways. We may not like it but that's the way a global society works! Those countries are trying to screw us more while we're all divided! UNITED WE STAND and DIVIDED WE FALL!!!!
Strangely like he said some of the richest people on Earth live here. But here it's the government that keeps people in poverty. You can't save money, you can't have a car, if you study the government do everything they can to push you away from your career! Believe it or not!!! I used to be an x-ray tech who relocated to NY to continue my career, earn more and have a better state of living. The result? Long story short I ended up homeless, lost my medical career and now live in poverty and all the fault of the government I assure you. And I have sports therapists, ICU technicians, cardiopulmonary techs, etc. ALL lost their professions in one way or the other because of the government. But we all have another thing in common were relocated here to Rochester and we are NOT Caucasians. Caucasians are usually never poor here and get a lot of help from the government. That is further complicated by the fact that this city is probably one of the most racist cities in US!!!🤮
@@joey8567 what's up with Lubbock Texas? What out there? They got a lot of new houses been built there and are there jobs there?🤔? What kind of jobs are they?
I fully expected Tennessee to be on this list. I was also surprised by New York.
I consider trade schools to be education. But I am blown away by the number of people that believe that education is a bad thing (my family). I think we can work our way out of poverty but only if we are willing to do what it takes.
My grandfather was an immigrant to this country and he had a 3rd grade education. My father dropped out of high school to fight in WW2. I graduated high school and entered an apprenticeship program and worked for 40 years in good jobs. Both of my kids graduated from university and have even better jobs than I did. Education is the key to success!
Just think of how happy your grandfather would be if he knew what his great grandchildren would accomplish. WOW
Thank you for saying nice things about WV that’s my home and I love it.
You have to be in at least a swing state to even have hope of minimum wage getting raised before 2028. Imagine being in 2028 and minimum wage is still $7.25/hr.
My first "real" job where I worked fulltime, was a mostly summer construction job while in high school and into college. I was hired to do piece work or by the unit, installing aluminum studs in new condos complexes out near the everglades and made $100 per eight to ten hour day and worked a lot of weekends. That was roughly up to $12.50 per hour. It was a hard, never stopping and constantly hustling work day but this was in 1975. My apartment was a two bedroom that I shared with a friend and the rent was $150 including utilities split between us. Back then in Florida, a gallon of milk was around $0.65 and new custom built home was between $25,000 to $35,000 if you wanted to live on a waterway. My family opted to spend the higher amount in order to live on one of the many canals in Fort Lauderdale. We moved into our brand new home when I entered fifth grade at McNab Elementary. My mom and dad sold it after their divorce a few years later. That same house recently sold for over $3,500,000! I recently retired early and moved from the LA/Ventura area of CA and now am able to live like a Rey (King) a couple miles from a beautiful beach in Mexico on less than $1,500us per month! If you are able, utilize geographic arbitrage to improve your overall quality of life. I just got home from a quick surf and a lunch of fresh caught fish tacos con todo for $1.30us each. I am in my hammock on the palm frond roofed patio where I can see the ocean and surf and about to drift off while listening to the muffled sound of mariachi music off in the distance..... Buena suerte!
This is why I believe in term limits for all politicians.
Definitely
The quiet part about coal; coal isn’t as valuable as oil and gas. It costs too much to mine and transport for the amount of energy output almost everywhere in the USA.
So why are they mining coal and sending it to China?
My state was heavily dependent on one industry, and when that industry went bust it hit us hard, by the time the 2009 global recession hit we already were in recession for several years. Luckily since then we have done a pretty decent job at diversifying our economy, but certain areas here are still feeling the lasting impacts of the original crash
Which state?
I don't know what state this person is from, but I'm from NV, and our state was heavily dependent on tourism and we did turn around, sort of.
@@adrienaugustin6520 My state is Michigan, and of course the dominant industry was the automotive industry. Our economy has diversified since but there is no doubt that there is still work to be done. I would love to see the state have a little something for everyone
@@nothat0therguy992 --I thought you'd write West Virginia... I've been wanting to visit Michigan especially the Mackinaw Island area...
@@feleciawallace8420 Michigan has some wonderful places to visit and it is such a beautiful state too. I may be biased, but I swear that Michigan is one of the most severely underrated states out there.
None on the list were really surprising, except New York. However, after hearing my sister in law talk about her experiences there, it really doesn't surprise me. Most of the state suffers from a discouraging culture as I understand it. I was told that corrupt people run most of the state, not just NYC. Corrupt leadership demands payments which creates an added tax which discourages new and small business formation. They do offer better opportunities at health care for the disadvantaged compared to many other states as I understand it.
You are right. I moved out of NY state five years ago. Plus, high taxes and crummy winter weather.
If you go to the Bronx where there is so much poverty, etc you will find plenty of people who are illiterate and can't even speak English and you will find some of the most motivated people on the planet as well. I would like to see some statistics on how many kids show up age 5 to their first day of school not knowing a single word of English, as both my parents told me they did. Imagine being a teacher in a school where you are supposed to be teaching kids and you first have to teach them English. I bet New Mexico has a similar problem as well.
@@ninatrabona4629 I don't know about NYC's school system, but most school systems have ESL programs to accommodate non-English speakers. Learning would be insanely difficult otherwise.
Yes, they pay to check school kid's hearing and eyesight,
for example, some states do not.
@@bikeyclown4669 I don't know if they have ESL programs now but they have whole classes in the student's
native languages when there are enough students to justify it.
Oklahoma, has booming areas then we have rural areas where few have any money. The state needs to work on growth throughout the state. The rural areas need to work on getting better paying jobs closer to the small towns. The land, lakes, and wildlife are beautiful in Oklahoma, we need to develop tourism!Like many others we live out in the country but I drive about 40 plus miles to work in Tulsa where there are good jobs. He is right about the land, especially in the rural areas. By living 40 miles outside the Tulsa we have been able to buy land Ave build a much nicer house than we could have afforded closer to Tulsa or Oklahoma City.
ok tell those small town folks to build a giga factory to produce rockets or cars or whatever they invent. i mean what stopping them?
@@SgtJoeSmith I am sure most would immediately respond by saying lack of money, however I believe what is really stopping them is fear of failure. That fear makes many small towns afraid dreaming big and trying new things.
Briggs. I agree with you about fixing up New Orleans. I have been 3 times in the past year but the first time I went, last year, I was in tears about the overall conditions of the city. Don’t get me wrong I love it, the jazz, the food and drink, the history, and the unique-ness are great but fix the sidewalks! ❤️ from 🇨🇦
@michaelthomas9440 I don’t disagree that it is hairy there, pun intended. NOLA is so much more than just Bourbon St and Mardi Gras. Just hope that they can turn it around someday. ❤️ from 🇨🇦
New Orleans - is a dirty city, the bums / homeless are extremely nasty... after my first visit a few years ago I decided then I'd never return... I had hope Katrina 20 years ago would've washed away the bums and the filth... but it's still bad in my opinion....
@@feleciawallace8420Katrina did a lot of damage and so many moved and never came back. Business as well.
The history?! You are not african american on sight to them. Most likely.
@michaelthomas9440....
Wow......cant miss the sleight of hand SLUR inferred.
Universal Healthcare and Affordable Housing have an outsized role in reducing and eliminating poverty. It sets a solid floor for people to reasonably work up from. It’s difficult being a student, even with the best education available, when you’re sick or homeless.
I'd rather die than have the government take give me anything👌
@@Roger-fs5yo I can't tell if you are ignorant or apathetic.
@Fakeaorta I mean business. I want the government out of life and out of my face. But hey if you guy's give up the right to vote "something you don't deserve to have in the first place" I'd be more than willing to hook yall up, with all the free tax payer garbage ya want👌
So not govt regulations or agencies of any kind?@@Roger-fs5yo
@@FakeaortaI agree with you. I think that health care providers are as important of a service to society, if not more important, as police and firefighters. Nobody ever suggests that firefighting and police be replaced by for-profit businesses. Can you imagine how expensive life would be if you had deductibles and copays for every time you needed the police or firefighters?
Plus, health care empowers the workers. If you aren’t worried about losing your health insurance, you can leave your work more easily. Employers wouldn’t like losing that bargaining chip because they lose the power to exploit their workers.
If these states, but mostly the Southern states actually invested in ALL of its people regardless of race and social class (in education, healthcare, jobs and affordable housing), they would raise the quality of life for everyone and make their state a good place to live. I lived in Texas for 17 years and we have the most people with no healthcare insurance and the educational system is wanting in most places, unless you are white and wealthy. I also think the move for home schooling and charter schools has worsened the situation. And no I am not a teacher.
Texas and New York surprised me. I think the core problem is inequitable distribution of wealth and income. Both are fixable as both states have a lot of educated, smart and creative people along with massive amount wealth (oil, stock market...) that just need to be distributed differently. Texas should discontinue its no income tax policy as it is unrealistic and unfair to the poor. In case of Texas, attracting corporation with the promise of no state taxes leaves the state with no funds for updating the infrastructure and educational system.
M0st surprising - New York. N0t surprising - Mississippi. M0st disappointing - New Mexico. New Mexico is such a lovely place.....
mostly red states.
And there shouldn't be any blue states
If people in other states realized how truly beautiful Arkansas is, more people would vacation and retire here. But we are going to need better education and more accessible healthcare.
Love when Hillary Clinton Said that West Virginia needed to move away from Coal and wanted to help to establish a new future for the state, but she was hated for that and Trump just said he loves coal and WV was in his pocket
BUT: Donald Trump vowed to revive the coal industry, but it’s President Joe Biden who’s seeing a big comeback of the dirtiest fossil fuel. U.S. power plants are on track to burn 23% more coal this year, the first increase since 2013. Bidens "Build Back Better" gave West Virgina 6 illion while Trump gave Zip, nothing.
ALSO: on Biden watch, US oil production is poised to "Shatter" all-time records set during the Trump administration.
Briggs, what kind of taxes are good for poor people? Taxes hurt poor people more than the well-off.
Personally, the public education system across the county is terrible.
I agree
You’re right about almost everything you said. Especially the coal thing and bad politicians
im from outside of NOLA and unfortunately, it seems to only be getting worse
I'm not surprised about Mississippi and now understand why they've been ending up in Tennessee. I was surprised about New York.
FYI - 15:57 You misspelled West Virginia. (Virgnia, LOL)
I'm more of a beach person, but have to say that WV is probably the most beautiful state I have ever been to. I have been to 49 states more than once. I agree that tourism would help the state a lot. BEAUTIFUL!
Downside to viral videos-“that’s how we got Justin Bieber” LMAO 😂😂 good one!!!!
From all the states I have been to, I felt like KY was the poorest, and it is literally depressing to be there.
i’m from California and I recently took a road trip through the deep south, honestly Utah, Nevada and California is the only America i’ve ever known. When I drove through Louisiana and Mississippi I couldn’t believe the level of poverty that exists in the richest country on earth! I’m honestly kinda outraged that there’s nothing being done to help these people. They were some of the kindest people i’ve ever met too! But when I told them I was from California I always got a “I’d never live there too many liberals” but they don’t understand that they are voting against their own interests 😔
Your logic makes no sense. Explain to me then why Tennessee is doing so well and that state is hard-core red . Same with Idaho and Montana. All 3 Doing really really well. All 3 deep red. So make it make sense.
Edit: you can include Florida as a state that is doing very financially well
@@reenakemp9132 I’m sorry I should have been more clear, i’m not trying to say it’s because it’s a red state. They vote for corrupt officials! The party affiliation is irrelevant if there’s corruption
@@reenakemp9132 Tennesse is not hard core red. Nashville is the most properous city in the state has a Democratic mayor and other leaders.
@JBoy340a You haven't looked at how we vote here have you.. examine the other states then. Explain Utah.. you can't. Look at areas of Tennessee that are also extremely prosperous. Knoxville, Maryville, Sevierville and the Smoky Mountains, that is actually the most expensive area of the state to live in a d buy a home in. Hard-core red and we voted in Tim Burchett for goodness. You also realize we have a Senator Marsha Balckburn and this state, for some reason, LOVES her.. and she is as red as it gets. So try again.
I'm sure you agree with OP. Yet you can't explain why TN, MT, ID, FL, UT are all doing well. You won't be able to lol. Most only point to Nashville even though East Tennessee is why the state is prosperous. #1 state income is tourism. All you have to do is look at the very red voting Appalachain mountains and the GSMNP to see where all the states money comes from.
@@reenakemp9132florida is low paying
It is poor
WHAT SURPRISE ME TEXAS AND NEW YORK . KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK BRIGG !!!
Article CNBC: "62 percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck".
As a resident of Louisiana, I would just like to point out you spelled Virginia wrong 😁
I know that there is one political party that generally does support job skills training, more investment in public education, and better access to healthcare, and one party doesn't.
And Alabama is unlikely to change unless its political leaders and the people who vote for them drastically change. Also, yes, we really need to stop using coal, at least at the levels we do today.
Btw, congratulations! Briggs didn't blame "brutal winters" for high rates of poverty!
Kentucky Tennessee west Virginia and other states are reclaiming old coal roads into off road parks. Check out the Hatfield and McCoys trail system.
Very interesting video! I'm not happy living here in the state of Illinois, but I'm more thankful I don't live in any of these southern states, and not just because of the poverty, but the ridiculous amount of insects and the lack of excitement in most of those states. New York and Texas making this list surprised me, but at least those 2 states are still worth visiting.
Texas being here is ridiculous this guy is dumb as heck!
We’re the best state BY FAR and my county of Bee County is very good!!!
Agreed, NY surprised me and Mississippi didn't.
" the lack of excitement " . . . . really ? so the club scene and gang banger shoot outs are your thing ?
@@OldBastard-dj6erYes of course the lack of excitement in most southern states would make me miserable if I were living there. And why did you bring out clubs and shoot-outs? No that's not my thing. Why would it be? I'm trying to stay alive. I don't want to get drunk or shot.
@@bracebrooks967 fair enough.
Maybe there should be a way agriculture jobs can be more sustainable? Without them... nobody eats. It is hard honorable work. It isn't glamorous, but it is supremely important.
The problem with Texas is illegal immigration. Lots of uninsured, overcrowded schools, not enough jobs for the massive influx of people
[before ive even watched the vid] Hooray, ANOTHER video about the south.
I was surprised by Texas making this list. For the past few years all I have heard about Texas was how great it is-a regular heaven on earth. New York State was also a surprise. All of the rest of the states on the list were expected.
I would have agreed 2 months ago. I was in Houston for a convention and the number of homeless and people that appeared struggling far outpaced what I see in Portland, Oregon.
Drive through Texas and you'll see many small poor towns
New York upstate is full of Rust Belt cities and towns that really suffered when these industries pulled out or died. Amsterdam - carpets is a perfect example.
It’s a lie. It’s political propaganda to say Texas is doing better than Oregon or New York
I heard (could be false) that upstate NY had the fewest indoor bathrooms of any U.S. state. You have to trudge outdoors to the little house with the crescent moon in all weather conditions.
Yes, upstate New York is very poor.
South? Check. Appalachia? Check. If not New Mexico, Arizona - both look decent in Albuquerque/Phoenix/etc., but look decidedly threadbare once you're out in the country.
I wonder about working poor, people who make good money but are broke because of the high cost of living.
Love your vids Mr. Briggs. Great job as usual and your presentation style and content is second to none.
But Mr. Briggs is still Politically Correct. For less PC assessments, watch Thomas Sowell.
@@user-1rg9f2-g3l6d what??
States that surprised: Texas and New York. Also surprising: you frequently mentioned that a state's reliance on agriculture as a negative. Given that everybody needs food and clothing, I would think that agriculture should be an overall reliable source of employment...
Agriculture can be a great lifestyle when your family owns the farm or ranch. But, other folks living out there might struggle. There aren't enough mid-sized cities in many vast agricultural regions.
Alabama had a thriving textile industry once, but it went overseas when China's market was opened up. Environmentalism shut down or severely reduced most of Alabama's iron mines and its steel industry. It used to have a thriving wood pulp industry for making paper, but the internet ruined that. All it really had left was its agricultural industry. These days, it does have some auto manufacturers and some aerospace, but not much else and not everybody lives in the counties that have the auto plants. Its history and the people's conservatism prevent businesses from locating to Alabama. The kids who are better educated end up leaving the State, so there is brain drain going on. If Alabama invests in education, we end up with more kids leaving because there aren't any jobs to keep them here.
The problem with agriculture is that family farms don't produce a W2. You can raise a hundred cattle, grow a garden, grill steaks every day, sell a few steers at an auction, spend that to buy a new 200k tractor, but at the end of yhe year, on your personal taxes, you made 10k dollars... so... poverty...
The poverty and poor education in Texas is made worse by the illegal immigrants , they take over the lower income neighborhoods and put their kids in public school.
Then the school has to slow down their curriculum because the Hispanic kids can’t keep up, because their parents have a 9th grade education and don’t speak English.
Then that affects the American kids and puts them behind as well.
Texas did not surprise me, but New York did.
Thanks for the West Virginia love 💛
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, New Mexico, West Virginia. These are just the blatantly obvious guesses I'm making before even watching the video.
New York didn't surprise me i worked in upstate NY and the poverty was heart breaking.
I heard jokes that rats have it better, any accurate?
Yes, the poverty in upstate New York is abundant.
Didn't see rats in upstate not enough food for them @@Nev1812
So basically all but 1 is a Red State, that tells you all you need to know.
Political beliefs plays a huge part in poverty because it causes all of the down stream affects touched upon.
Lack of:
Education
Healthcare
Infrastructure
Job diversity (can't attract employers)
Republicans were never big on the first 3, they've never cared about the poor and see them as a burden not recognizing it's their policies that contribute the most in creating the problem.
With the current attack on education from groups like Mom's for Liberty it will be ages before any red state turns around. Now new York is a prime example of greed at its worst we could have everyone housed especially in New York if we had such a thing as affordable housing not just set off to the side for poor people with the actual overall prices were affordable.
You’re right about West Virginia it’s the most beautiful state I ever seen or been through
I wish you would have put map to show where the county where you gave for each state.
The educational
System is Texas is
Getting worse with text books being over
Managed same with Florida and book banning.
When I clicked this, I asked "Which will be first, Louisiana or Mississippi?" 😂
West Virginia had it bad enough with the loss of coal, but they made it worse. Sometime back in the... eighties?... they changed the tax policy, and what industry they had immediately moved out of the state. Huntington, my college town, lost several industrial businesses, and the population dropped from 90,000 to around 50,000 (they say; I'd estimate it as around 40,000). If not for Marshall University, Huntington would be a ghost town. Even my tiny home town, Buckhannon, lost business, and a couple thousand people of the seven thousand it had. Again, Buckhannon is largely relying on the college, West Virginia Wesleyan, to keep it above water.
Education is critical to this nations future
YEAH, Billy..