The
Gallup-Healthways Wellbeing Index has released the results of its annual survey ranking the happiness and well-being of our country's 50 states. Hawaii is the nation's most "thriving" state, following by Utah, South Dakota, Maryland, Texas, and New Hampshire.
But what does it mean to thrive? How to measure something as abstract as happiness? The Wellbeing Index ranks optimism about the future and where people feel they stand in relation to the best life they could possibly have.
And in an analysis for
Atlantic Cities, Richard Florida uses existing demographic data to make some interesting correlations: specifically, that college graduation rates have something to do with whether states thrive.
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