Minnesota ranked # 3 in the nation for volunteerism.
Minnesota ranked #1 for youth voter turnout.
Minnesota ranked #5 for median family income.
Minnesota ranked #4 for students ranked as advanced in 4th grade math
Minnesota ranked #1 for high school graduation rates (per capita)
Minnesota ranked #10 for residents with a Bachelor’s degree or higher (33% of pop)
Minnestoa ranked #13 for percent of children with all parents in the labor force
Minnesota ranked # 21 for welfare caseloads (per capita #17 in real numbers)
Minnesota ranked #11 for Patents issued
Minnesota ranked #19 for Employment
Minnesota ranked #22 for abortion rate (for real numbers, but #20 for out-of state non-residents, so Minnesotans who have abortions are less common)
Minnesota ranked #18 for % of women who never marry (#19 for men)
Minnesota ranked #42 for divorce rate
Minnesota ranked # 39 for violent crime per capita.
Minnesota ranked #29 for bankruptcy filings (real numbers)
Minnesota ranked #4 for over-all health index
Minnesota ranked # 43 for child death rate (real numbers)
Minnesota ranked #45 for Infant death rate (real numbers)
Minnesota ranked #40 for Chlamidia (per capita)
Minnesota ranked #41 for suicides (per capita)
Minnesota is #2 for accepting refugees (per capita #4 for real numbers)
Not surprisingly:
Minnesota ranked #8 for tax rate pre $ GDP
Minnesota ranked #4 for tax rate per capita
Minnesota ranked #12 for total tax burden
Strangely, enough, I’d rather live in Minnesota than some low-tax, conservative, “family values” state. I like living in a state that actually values people, families and civic life.