Nebraska is named one of the country’s best states in newly released rankings by U.S. News & World Report, earning high marks for its infrastructure and fiscal stability.
To rank the states, U.S. News & World Report used 71 metrics across eight broad categories: crime and corrections, economy, education, fiscal stability, health care, infrastructure, natural environment and opportunity.
Those categories were weighted based on three years of data from national surveys that asked thousands of people to prioritize different issues in their state.
What is Nebraska’s rank?
Nebraska ranked fifth overall.
Here’s how it did in each of the categories:
What are the highest-ranked states?
What are the lowest-ranked states?
This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: Nebraska is one of the best states in the country, says US News and World Report
Reporting by Chris Mueller, Des Moines Register / Des Moines Register
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