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States that vote Democratic (“blue”) and those that vote Republican (“red”) show of welfare spending, program participation, and receipt of federal public-health funds, but the answer to “which has mo...
Charity watchdogs rank all three organizations highly: Tunnel to Towers earns an A+ from CharityWatch and a 4‑star score from Charity Navigator, with CharityWatch saying it spent 93% of cash expenses ...
In recent reporting and data analyses, nonprofit USAFacts and media outlets show a clear pattern: a group of "donor" states send more federal tax dollars to Washington than they receive back in federa...
In fiscal-year 2024 analyses, USAFacts reports 19 states were net contributors (sent more to the federal government than they received), led in absolute dollars by California ($275.6 billion), New Yor...
The national average retail price of regular gasoline in calendar year 2021 was about $3.29 per gallon (EIA/consumer surveys and aggregated trackers show 2021 as a rebound year after 2020) and average...
Only a minority of U.S. states are net contributors to federal coffers; most states receive more federal spending than they pay in taxes, but estimates differ by methodology and year. , with Massachus...
Analyses from multiple outlets find a consistent pattern: many high-income, “blue” states (like New York, California, Massachusetts) send more in federal taxes than they receive back, while many lower...
Available reporting shows multiple 2024 rankings and federal datasets that can be used to identify the “safest” states, but there is no single authoritative list in the supplied sources that explicitl...
WalletHub and other analyses show Kentucky is among the most federally dependent states: recent WalletHub figures report Kentucky receives roughly $2.36 back in federal funding for every $1 its reside...
National crime rates fell to multi‑decade lows in 2024, with violent crime roughly half of its 1991 peak and the homicide rate around 5.0 per 100,000 in 2024 . State‑level “safest” rankings highlight ...
Consumers often mean one of three things by “free money credit card”: a no-annual-fee card with good rewards, a card that offers a generous sign‑up bonus, or a 0%‑APR offer that lets you borrow intere...
States that host the most ICE agents and detainees — notably , , and — are also among the most racially and ethnically diverse U.S. states, but the available analyses do not provide a direct, contempo...
Alaska emerges repeatedly as the state with the , with WalletHub reporting residents pay about in combined taxes; several states that levy — including Alaska and Florida — also rank among the lowest b...
The most recent analyses in the record disagree on a single top state but consistently show among the highest state-and-local tax burdens in 2025, while appear among the lowest depending on methodolog...
The answer to “top 5 states with the lowest crime rates in 2024” depends on which metric is used: that weight road, workplace, financial, and emergency-preparedness measures. Different 2024 sources po...
Available reporting identifies a small set of states that are the largest net recipients of federal dollars per capita; multiple data compilations and analyses point to Alaska, Virginia, New Mexico, K...
Available 2025 reporting and compiled lists consistently place St. Louis, Memphis, Detroit, Baltimore and (variously) New Orleans or Birmingham among the U.S. cities with the highest violent‑crime or ...
Federal funding per capita in 2025 shows : some states and territories receive many thousands of dollars more per resident than others, while a minority of states are net contributors to the Treasury ...
WalletHub’s 2025 tax-burden study lists as the five states with the highest tax burdens in 2025, while separate WalletHub reporting highlights a different set of states as most dependent on federal fu...
The states consistently identified as having the lowest effective property tax rates in 2025 include Hawaii, Alabama, Louisiana, Colorado, and South Carolina, a pattern visible across multiple compila...