Sentence examples for states ranking from inspiring English sources

Sylvester J. Schieber, an economist and independent consultant, recently compared public pensions in each of the 50 states, ranking them from richest to poorest.

Virginia has maintained the top spot since our first Best States ranking in 2006.

Also like many of these states, Arizona is a major source of guns used illegally in other states, ranking as the 15th largest exporter of crime guns to other states.

Psephologist Nate Silver wrote that with swing states unlikely to support a compact that reduced their disproportionate influence, the apparent lack of Republican support is likely to prove fatal for the compact; all the states that have adopted the compact are "blue states", ranking within the 14 strongest vote shares for Barack Obama in the 2012 Presidential Election.

The ranking of the different classes of chromatin states were chosen based on multivariable regression of the full training and validation dataset (Additional file 2), the promoter and strong enhancer chromatin states ranking above the other classes.

In his "Rich States, Poor States" ranking for the conservative, pro-business American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, conservative economist Arthur Laffer places California at a dismal 46th in economic outlook for 2016. .

(All of these states rank below Ohio).

Nineteen states ranked above New York, where it was 31percentt.

In general, Southern and Rust Belt states rank lowest on this index, while the Plains states and Pacific states rank best, as shown in the interactive map above.

Among the states ranked highest for the quality of their standards and tests were Kentucky, Maryland, New Mexico and New York.

The top ten states ranked by gross state product per capita are, in order: the District of Columbia (nearly a state), Delaware, Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Alaska, California, Virginia, and Minnesota.