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FarCenter

(19,429 posts) Fri Feb 16, 2018, 09:00 AM Feb 2018

Record 21 States See Decline in Well-Being in 2017

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

- For the first time, zero states saw statistically significant improvement from prior year

- South Dakota and Vermont top nation for the first time, followed by Hawaii

- West Virginia has lowest well-being, followed by Louisiana

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Nearly half of U.S. states saw their well-being scores decline by a statistically significant margin in 2017, according to the Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index. And, for the first time in nine years of tracking changes in state well-being, no state saw statistically significant improvement from the year before.

http://news.gallup.com/poll/226517/record-states-decline-2017.aspx