HOW CONNECTICUT RANKS
Here’s just a handful of rankings demonstrating why we like living in Connecticut:
- #1 – Earnings for full-time workers (2004 U.S. Census Survey)
- #1 – Reading and writing skills, elementary school children (2005 National Center for Education Statistics)
- #1 – Highest income per capita (2006 U.S. Breau of Economic Analysis)
- #2 – Preparing children for a successful career (2007 Education Week Study)
- #2 – Retirement savings (“nest eggs”) (2005 A.G. Edwards survey)
- #2 – Best educated population (2005 Morgan Quitno study)
- #2 – Financing/Support for elementary and secondary schools (2005 Morgan Quitno study)
- #2 – Median family income and median household income (2004 U.S. Census)
- #2 – Libraries per capita (2005 National Center for Education Statistics)
- #3 – Gross state product per capita (2004 U.S. Census Bureau)
- #4 – Status of women (employment, health, economic and social equity – PERI/UMass 2005 study)
- #5 – Healthiest state(2006 United Health Foundation)
- 49th – Percentage of people living below the poverty rate (2004 American Community Survey/U.S. Census Bureau)
