This is the Census Bureau’s TOP SECRET ranking of states by poverty level. They did not put out this list probably because they knew that it is nonsense in certain states. Can you believe it for a second that Nevada has the third highest poverty rate, Washington is fifth, and Massachusetts is in the top 10? Insider Monkey (your source of free real-time insider trading data) calculated these numbers from Census Bureau’s complicated public use files. Here you go:
Rank State
1 Alabama AL
2 Mississippi MS
3 Nevada NV
4 DC
5 Washington WA
6 Nebraska NE
7 West Virginia WV
8 Pennsylvania PA
9 Georgia GA
10 Massachusetts MA
11 Florida FL
12 Louisiana LA
13 Utah UT
14 Montana MT
15 South Dakota SD
16 Rhode Island RI
17 Iowa IA
18 Wyoming WY
19 New Mexico NM
20 Missouri MO
21 Indiana IN
22 Kentucky KY
23 Michigan MI
24 Alaska AK
25 Illinois IL
26 Tennessee TN
27 Kansas KS
28 Delaware DE
29 California CA
30 Minnesota MN
31 Ohio OH
32 Idaho ID
33 New Hampshire NH
34 Arizona AZ
35 Texas TX
36 New Jersey NJ
37 Maryland MD
38 Arkansas AR
39 Connecticut CT
40 Oklahoma OK
41 Maine ME
42 Hawaii HI
43 North Carolina NC
44 Virginia VA
45 Colorado CO
46 South Carolina SC
47 New York NY
48 Wisconsin WI
49 Oregon OR
50 Vermont VT
51 North Dakota ND
