The consumer price index has climbed steadily nearly every month for the last two and a half years, hitting a multi-decade high of 9.1% in June 2022. Though inflation has since cooled, dropping to 7.7% in October, the CPI remains at historic highs, and Americans across the country are feeling the pinch - particularly those without the means to absorb rising costs. (The price of this household item is soaring.)

The typical American household earns $64,994 annually, according to five-year estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2020 American Community Survey. But in nearly every state, there are cities where most households are earning far less than that.

Among the 16 places in Oklahoma with available data and populations of at least 25,000, Stillwater ranks as the poorest. The typical Stillwater household earns $34,906 a year, compared to the statewide median household income of $53,840.

Home values are often a reflection of what people can afford. Stillwater, however, appears to be a rare exception. The typical area home is worth $185,300, compared to the typical home in Oklahoma, which is worth $142,400.

For the purposes of this story, all places covered by the U.S. Census Bureau with populations of at least 25,000 were considered cities. All data in this story is from the ACS.

StatePoorest cityMedian household income ($)Median household income in state ($)Median home value ($)Median home value in state ($)AlabamaBessemer30,28452,035100,100149,600AlaskaFairbanks64,39777,790217,700275,600ArizonaSan Luis41,64861,529128,500242,000ArkansasPine Bluff34,41049,47574,900133,600CaliforniaCoachella33,99978,672238,500538,500ColoradoPueblo42,90275,231149,600369,900ConnecticutHartford36,15479,855170,200279,700DelawareWilmington45,13969,110173,500258,300FloridaUniversity (Hillsborough County)29,38057,70391,900232,000GeorgiaStatesboro32,79061,224115,100190,200HawaiiHilo65,72783,173341,500636,400IdahoRexburg33,27858,915221,700235,600IllinoisEast St. Louis24,00968,42853,900202,100IndianaGary31,31558,23568,400148,900IowaClinton46,06661,836100,800153,900KansasKansas City46,42461,091101,300157,600KentuckyRichmond39,32952,238148,900147,100LouisianaMonroe31,92650,800150,000168,100MaineLewiston42,96959,489150,100198,000MarylandHagerstown41,90587,063160,000325,400MassachusettsSpringfield41,57184,385162,900398,800MichiganFlint30,38359,23431,700162,600MinnesotaWinona48,65373,382153,500235,700MississippiGreenville29,01346,51179,900125,500MissouriSpringfield37,49157,290122,200163,600MontanaButte-Silver Bow49,65956,539156,400244,900NebraskaFremont54,29163,015140,400164,000NevadaWinchester39,36862,043172,300290,200New HampshireManchester62,08777,923241,600272,300New JerseyCamden28,62385,24582,500343,500New MexicoSouth Valley41,53751,243153,400175,700New YorkJamestown34,76771,11766,400325,000North CarolinaAsheboro37,17156,642119,700182,100North DakotaGrand Forks50,19465,315209,800199,900OhioWarren27,10858,11666,100151,400OklahomaStillwater34,90653,840185,300142,400OregonGrants Pass46,58065,667260,400336,700PennsylvaniaChester32,86763,62770,300187,500Rhode IslandWoonsocket44,31070,305191,500276,600South CarolinaAnderson33,56954,864138,000170,100South DakotaRapid City53,76059,896194,100174,600TennesseeMorristown33,51154,833119,500177,600TexasHuntsville31,02063,826168,800187,200UtahLogan43,05674,197216,200305,400VermontBurlington55,46163,477312,200230,900VirginiaDanville37,14776,39895,500282,800WashingtonPullman32,07377,006287,700366,800West VirginiaHuntington33,01248,037100,300123,200WisconsinMilwaukee43,12563,293128,300189,200WyomingLaramie47,46365,304225,400228,000

The United States suffered through the worst terror attack in its history on Sept. 11, 2001. From the Pentagon and the World Trade Center to a field outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the attacks left 3,400 people dead. The events of that day also spawned a new era in U.S. foreign policy - one that would lead to thousands more American deaths in the coming decades.

Less than one month after the 9/11 attacks, the War on Terror began when the U.S. and NATO allies started military strikes in Afghanistan. Then, in 2003, the War on Terror escalated further, when the U.S. launched an invasion of Iraq.

Though the ongoing War on Terror achieved several goals, including the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and regime change in Iraq, the results came at a steep price. Since the first American was killed in Afghanistan in October 2001, nearly 6,900 Americans - serving in military, intelligence, and civilian capacities - from all 50 states have died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A reported 133 people from Oklahoma died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan of the last two decades, accounting for 1.9% of all deaths among the 50 states. Of those deaths, 79 were connected to the war in Iraq and the remaining 54 to the war in Afghanistan. Not all those reported as killed in these wars died in combat situations. Some of the deaths listed were caused by accidents like aircraft crashes, as well as friendly fire incidents, illness, and suicide.

Oklahoma is home to 64,807 veterans who served in the post 9/11 era, according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2021 American Community Survey.

All fatality data in this story was compiled by iCasualties, a website that tracks the death toll from the post 9/11 wars.

RankStateTotal deaths in post 9/11 warsTotal Iraq War deathsTotal Afghanistan War deathsCivilian veterans who served post 9/111California755486269332,5312Texas617426191460,4663Florida356203153302,1204New York306199107116,0105Pennsylvania29419896117,7476Ohio27918891123,0407Illinois25416589103,6268Michigan2311636886,4409Georgia21814474173,39710Virginia21513877231,04711North Carolina19611284166,39812Washington1539558136,01413Indiana152965666,92414Arizona1519952112,42215Missouri146915573,57316Tennessee144984698,29517Oklahoma133795464,80718Massachusetts132805239,79119New Jersey131824953,19620Maryland1288147102,95121Louisiana127903752,67722Wisconsin124893559,40923Kentucky115714451,78024Oregon108743452,01125Colorado1076938106,90326Alabama106733381,86327South Carolina101604189,61828Minnesota98683049,21729Arkansas92632943,68430Kansas78502839,73031Mississippi77542339,49232Iowa73492433,02233Nebraska62461627,27934New Mexico58421627,40235Nevada55361950,60237Utah52252735,32336Connecticut52322028,06438Idaho50331733,47939Maine47242320,01240Hawaii43291429,19941West Virginia41261520,21842New Hampshire40231717,19943Montana3829921,25144South Dakota2620612,59146Vermont252145,59645Alaska2517821,75947Wyoming221579,60149North Dakota2014611,72848Rhode Island2012810,29350Delaware1714313,130

(The Center Square) – Rep. Jim Olsen is the first lawmaker to file a bill for the upcoming 2023 Oklahoma legislative session.

House Bill 1001 would lower the legal age limit to carry a firearm from 21 years old to 18 years old.

"You can go in the military and use very lethal weapons (at 18 years old)," Olsen, R-Roland, told The Center Square. "Additionally you can get married and you may want to protect your spouse or children."

Olsen also filed House Bill 1002, called the Second Amendment Sanctuary State Act.

"If the federal government were to exceed their authority and start confiscating firearms from law-abiding citizens, then we would want to step in and say 'You are under arrest and you're going to stop,'" he said.

The bill gives the county sheriffs the authority to arrest anyone acting on the authority of the federal government to seize firearms.

Olsen co-authored a law that makes abortion a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and with fines up to $100,000. He said one matter that has not been settled is the use of abortion pills sent to Oklahoma residents from other states.

"I don't know if anybody has figured out anything on that," Olsen said. "I haven't figured out anything as far as the best way to deal with that. Arguably, it violates the intent of our law that there be no abortions in the state of Oklahoma."

Olsen and Sen. Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, who co-authored the bill making abortion a felony in the state, said in a news release last week they will continue to fight for against abortion.

'New allowances for abortion might come veiled as compassion and care for difficult and tragic circumstances," they said in the news release. "In fact, this is not the case at all. This would be nothing less than the taking away of innocent human life."

Oklahoma lawmakers begin the 2023 session on Feb. 6.

More than 70% of countries around the world have effectively abolished the death penalty, including all but one European nation. The United States, however, is an outlier, particularly among developed, democratic countries, and across the country, there are more than 2,000 people on death row.

Under the Biden administration, the federal government has had a standing moratorium on death sentences since July 1, 2021. This followed a period where executions at the federal level surged during the Trump administration.

State governments can form their own laws regarding capital punishment, and at the state level, death sentences and executions have become less common in recent years. Among the 27 states where the death penalty remains legal, its use is limited for those convicted of the most horrific crimes, such as a multiple homicide, murder of a police officer, or murder of a child.

According to Death Row U.S.A. Spring 2022, a report by the Legal Defense Fund, 42 people were on death row in Oklahoma as of April 1, 2022 - the 12th most among states.

Death sentences are typically handed down by a jury, and due in part to a lengthy appeals process and a shortage of lethal injection drugs, prisoners often spend years or decades on death row before sentencing is carried out. From 1976, the year the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty after a short-lived prohibition, to April 1, 2022, a total of 116 state prisoners in Oklahoma were executed.

RankStateDeath row inmates, April 1, 2022Executions from 1976 - April 1, 2022Total prisoners per 100,000 people, 20201California690132472Florida323993713Texas1995734554Alabama166693985North Carolina138432716Ohio134563857Pennsylvania12833088Arizona116374959Nevada651236110Louisiana622858111Tennessee471332812Oklahoma4211655913Georgia417643314Mississippi372258415South Carolina374330416Arkansas293152917Kentucky27341418Oregon21230019Missouri209137420Nebraska12426921Kansas9029822Idaho8339823Indiana82035124Utah7716625Montana2336226South Dakota1536227New Hampshire10172

(The Center Square) – Twelve attorneys general have submitted comments to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan expressing concerns about a new proposed rule they argue will increase energy costs and risk Americans’ safety.

At issue is the EPA’s proposed rule, “Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs under Clean Air Act; Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention.” (87 Fed. Reg. 53,556), which Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argues is another attempt by the Biden administration to revive an Obama-era “environmental justice” regulation. If implemented, it would far exceed the statutory authority of the EPA, the attorneys general argue, which was curtailed by the Supreme Court earlier this year.

The rule would require a range of American facilities and industries to implement costly new processes to minimize “climate change risks,” which the EPA hasn’t proved will reduce such risks, they argue. Those impacted by the regulations would include petroleum refineries, chemical manufacturers, water and wastewater treatment systems, chemical and petroleum wholesalers and terminals, food manufacturers, packing plants, cold storage facilities, agricultural chemical distributors, midstream gas plants, among others.

The proposed rule would impose “burdensome new regulatory requirements that do not lead to improvements in preventing accidental releases or minimizing the consequences any such releases,” they write, and “would come at the cost of a greater regulatory burden without providing sufficient corresponding benefits.”

It would also cripple the U.S. energy industry and subsequently create a serious national security risk, the attorney generals from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Utah, and led by Oklahoma, argue.

Worse still, another requirement would jeopardize Americans’ safety, they argue, because it requires certain facilities to publicly disclose information about specific locations of dangerous chemicals. This would only expose Americans to “risks of intentional releases by bad actors,” they write. “There is an inherent security risk in requiring public disclosure of information of sensitive information about chemical facilities without protections sufficient to mitigate that risk.”

The EPA has offered no evidence that imposing additional regulations “would have any effect on the number of chemical accidents that occur at the regulated entities,” they say. Instead, it “would increase costs and add onerous reporting requirements on the regulated facilities.”

Several commenters offered support for the rule change during the 2019 reconsideration comment period, but none provided information to support security concerns. The AG’s argue the Biden administration is revisiting the same “security shortcomings we warned about” before.

They aren’t alone. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott also has been pushing back against EPA overreach in the Permian Basin, and supported the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in West Virginia v. EPA in June. He said it correctly ruled to restrain the EPA when the agency has attempted to impose costly regulations without input from Congress.

Abbott said the ruling was “a victory against an out-of-control administration” as Americans were grappling with “skyrocketing energy costs due to expensive federal regulations that threaten our energy industry. President Biden cannot keep attacking the energy industry and the hardworking men and women who power our nation."

And while other states continue to be hamstrung by federal regulations, Texas continues to lead the U.S. in oil and natural gas production and job creation. Such a rule would stifle that growth, Abbott said.

Oil & Gas Workers Association Board Member Richard Welch told The Center Square a so-called “environmental justice” rule would devastate the economy, drive fuel prices up and hamper production at refineries that are already producing at capacity and under the strictest regulations already.

The rule isn’t about “justice,” he argues, but is “simply a ‘strong arm’ of an already weaponized EPA aimed at suffocating the already over-regulated oil and gas industry.”

Welch also says the administration doesn’t regulate the wind, solar and electric vehicle industries to the extent that it regulates the oil and natural gas industry. These industries also receive significant subsidies from the federal government while the harvesting of resources and production to create so-called green energy “causes significant harm to the environment,” he added.

He also said the U.S. oil and gas industry “remains confident in the AGs commitment to protecting it from ongoing federal overreach” and the Texas oil and natural gas industry “remains confident in the efforts of AG Paxton and Gov. Abbott to ensure Texas remains the oil and gas powerhouse that fuels America and the world.”

The U.S. defense budget - by far the largest of any country in the world - is the subject of regular controversy. But while multi-billion dollar weapons development programs that blow past budgets and deadlines will always be subject to political scrutiny, much of America's annual military spending is less controversial. Nearly one-quarter of the $718 billion in U.S. military spending in fiscal 2021 went to pay and retirement benefits of service members. (Here is a look at the failed weapons the U.S. wasted the most money on.)

Though there are thousands of active-duty U.S. military personnel deployed abroad and on ships at sea, the vast majority of American troops are stationed at bases within the United States. Across the country, there are hundreds of military bases that are collectively home to over 1 million active-duty service members and their families. These domestic military installations vary considerably in personnel capacity, and many of them have populations equivalent to that of a mid-size city.

According to the Department of Defense's report Demographics Profile of the Military Community for 2019 - the most recent year of comprehensive data by base - Fort Sill, located 90 miles from Oklahoma City, ranks as the largest military base in Oklahoma by troop count.

The base, run by the Army, is home to 13,310 active-duty service members. Including military family members and other dependents, there are a total of 26,189 people at the base.

StateLargest baseService BranchNearest major cityTotal active-duty troopsAll personnel, including dependentsAlabamaFort RuckerArmyDothan3,8609,805AlaskaFort Jonathan WainwrightArmyFairbanks6,11713,112ArizonaDavis-Monthan AFBAir ForceTucson5,99512,919ArkansasLittle Rock AFBAir ForceLittle Rock3,5368,108CaliforniaCamp PendletonMarine CorpsSan Diego39,69070,700ColoradoFort CarsonArmyColorado Springs24,52057,473ConnecticutNew London NAVSUBBASENavyHartford6,38513,856DelawareDover AFBAir ForceDover3,4847,718FloridaMayport NAVSTANavyJacksonville10,44225,013GeorgiaFort BenningArmyColumbus24,30546,785HawaiiSchofield BarracksArmyHonolulu15,05734,022IdahoMountain Home AFBAir ForceBoise3,3877,171IllinoisNaval Station Great LakesNavyChicago15,72621,875IndianaDFAS Indianapolis CenterDoDIndianapolis149450IowaNo base with over 100 troopsN/AN/AN/AN/AKansasFort RileyArmyTopeka15,21433,295KentuckyFort CampbellArmyNashville26,82462,977LouisianaFort PolkArmyAlexandria7,78317,384MaineBrunswhick NASNavyPortland4041,011MarylandFort George G. MeadeArmyBaltimore11,14026,041MassachusettsHanscom AFBAir ForceBoston8331,957MichiganDetroit ArsenalArmyWarren127480MinnesotaFort SnellingArmyMinneapolis262799MississippiKeesler AFBAir ForceBiloxi5,1629,587MissouriFort Leonard WoodArmySpringfield12,21823,479MontanaMalmstrom AFBAir ForceGreat Falls3,2426,792NebraskaOffutt AFBAir ForceOmaha6,01214,379NevadaNellis AFBAir ForceLas Vegas10,16821,937New HampshirePortsmouth Naval ShipyardNavyPortsmouth9592,064New JerseyMcGuire AFBAir ForceTrenton4,5109,755New MexicoCannon AFBAir ForceClovis4,6338,986New YorkFort DrumArmyWatertown15,19532,011North CarolinaFort BraggArmyFayetteville45,055109,101North DakotaMinot AFBAir ForceMinot5,62511,031OhioWright-Patterson AFBAir ForceDayton5,40113,914OklahomaFort SillArmyOklahoma City13,31026,189OregonNo base with over 100 troopsN/AN/AN/AN/APennsylvaniaCarlisle BarracksArmyHarrisburg5031,903Rhode IslandNaval Station NewportNavyNewport3,2697,191South CarolinaFort JacksonArmyColumbia11,54520,589South DakotaEllsworth AFBAir ForceRapid City3,3487,118TennesseeNaval Support Activity Mid-SouthNavyMemphis6762,014TexasFort HoodArmyKilleen36,69783,815UtahHill AFBAir ForceOgden4,2019,985VermontBurlington IAP-AGSAir ForceAlbany113266VirginiaNorfolk Naval BaseNavyNorfolk47,368100,893WashingtonFort LewisArmyTacoma26,51262,831West VirginiaNo base with over 100 troopsN/AN/AN/AN/AWisconsinFort McCoyArmyLa Crosse2901,072WyomingFrancis E Warren AFBAir ForceCheyenne3,0666,716

(The Center Square) – Attorneys general from 22 states are urging the Biden Administration to end its mandate requiring health-care workers to get the COVID-19 vaccine if they’re employed by operators receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding.

The 37-page petition was filed Thursday under the Administrative Procedure Act. It calls on the U.S. Department for Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to do away with a rule that went into effect more than a year ago.

At that time, federal officials said the vaccine mandate was necessary to protect the health of workers, patients, residents and others.

However, the attorneys general say CMS exceeded its authority when it made the rule. They claim the mandate violates the spending clause of the U.S. Constitution, which threatens states from receiving essential funding if they do not comply with the rule.

In Kentucky, for example, the state received more than $12 billion in Medicare and Medicaid funding from the federal government, which equals more than a quarter of the state’s budget.

Further, the attorneys general argue there was no conclusive data at that time that the vaccines would prevent COVID-19 from spreading.

“Indeed, fully vaccinated individuals contracted and transmitted COVID-19,” the petition states. “That trend has continued – even with the introduction of first-generation boosters and the new, bivalent Omicron booster. This data merely confirms what CMS should have known in November 2021 – full vaccination doesn’t prevent infection or transmission.”

Instead, they claim the vaccines have enhanced health risks among “normally healthy” people and that mandating vaccinations has been a “flawed” policy.

The petition also cites a New York state court ruling last month for 16 New York City sanitation workers who were fired because they did not get the vaccine.

As a result of the vaccine mandate, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron said health-care facilities have seen massive staffing shortages that put people at risk of losing access to the care they need.

“Lifting the CMS vaccine mandate would allow healthcare facilities to rehire healthcare workers who left the industry due to the mandate and alleviate the burnout so many existing healthcare workers are experiencing,” he added.

Other states represented in the petition include Arizona, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming.

(The Center Square) - The Oklahoma State Banking Board's decision to trim assessment rates for state-chartered banks could mean good news for bank customers.

The board agreed to cut assessment rates by 50% for banks with assets less than $ 1 billion and 25% for banks above that threshold, according to an announcement from the board.

"The Oklahoma State Banking Department has reduced assessments for state-chartered banks several consecutive years," said Adrian Beverage, president and CEO of the Oklahoma Bankers Association, in an email to The Center Square. "Anytime assessments are reduced at an institution, it frees up resources that can then be used to provide services to both consumer and commercial customers."

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation raised the initial base deposit insurance assessment rate schedule for banks last month. The increase would reduce banks' income by an average 1.2% and have an "insignificant effect" on banks' capital levels, according to information from the FDIC. The board said they hoped the reduction in assessment rates would offset the increase from the FDIC.

"We are still gathering data on what the recent FDIC assessment will cost Oklahoma banks," Beverage said. "Only state-chartered banks in Oklahoma received the assessment reduction from the State Banking Department. A lot will go into the size of each bank and whether they are state or federally chartered. So to answer your question, the assessment reduction from the state will help to reduce the FDIC assessment for some banks, but won't do anything to help to offset the FDIC assessment for other banks."

Oklahoma state-chartered banks have saved over $20 million in assessments through discounts, according to the board.

(The Center Square) - The Department of Justice is investigating Oklahoma’s mental health system and specifically how the Oklahoma City Police Department responds to behavioral health crises.

The investigation is focusing on community-based mental health services in Oklahoma County, and whether or not the state is providing them, the DOJ said in a news release Thursday. The lack of services could lead to “unnecessary admissions to psychiatric facilities and police contact.”

DOJ investigators are also probing the response of the Oklahoma City Police Department and 911 call center to behavioral health crises, the agency said.

The Oklahoma City Police Department was notified of the investigation Thursday morning but was not given specifics, the department said in a statement.

“We intend to cooperate with the USDOJ and look forward to working with them toward the goal of providing the safest and most effective ways of responding to these types of calls,” Oklahoma City Police Chief Wade Gourley said.

The DOJ is investigating possible violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, according to the news release.

“Community-based mental health services, which are proven effective in transforming people’s lives, are critical to preventing a cycle of unnecessary institutionalization and avoidable contacts with law enforcement,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “The Civil Rights Division is committed to ensuring appropriate responses to behavioral health crises and protecting the civil rights of people with mental health disabilities.”

Oklahoma City Councilwoman JoBeth Hamon said on Twitter that more work needs to be done to make sure that those calling 911 get the appropriate care.

“It’s unfortunate and frustrating this has to be something investigated by DOJ when City Council could have been taking a more active role in appropriate responses to behavioral health crises to divert unnecessary escalation of crises and hospitalization or criminalization,’ Hamon said in her Twitter post.

The DOJ is asking anyone with information to contact the department at MentalHealth.Oklahoma@usdoj.gov.

Inflation has been surging to multi-decade highs in the U.S. According to the congressional Joint Economic Committee, prices climbed by 13.3% between January 2021 and July 2022, resulting in a $717 increase in monthly expenses for the average American household. Driven by a number of factors - including Russia's invasion of Ukraine and supply chain constraints tied to the COVID-19 pandemic - the inflation crisis is weighing heavy on American consumers.

In addition to the meaningful impact historic levels of inflation are having on household finances, they are also taking a psychological toll. A recent survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau found that 46.9% of American adults have found inflation to be "very stressful" in the last two months, and another 27.5% have found it to be "moderately stressful." Though these shares vary considerably by state.

In Oklahoma, a reported 55.3% of adults find inflation "very stressful" and 25.4% find it "moderately stressful" - the third largest and eighth smallest shares, respectively, among the 50 states.

Meanwhile, according to a report from the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, because of the rising cost of living, the average household in Oklahoma had to spend $593 more in July 2022 than in January 2021 to keep the same standard of living.

All data in this story is from the JEC and the U.S. Census Bureau's latest Household Pulse Survey, which collected data between Oct. 5 and Oct. 17, 2022 on how stressful the 18 and older population find inflation.

RankStateAdults who find inflation "very stressful" (%)Adults who find inflation "moderately stressful" (%)Increase in monthly spending for avg. household; Jan. 2021-July 2022 ($)Median annual household income ($)1Arkansas57.923.757052,5282West Virginia56.423.656951,2483Oklahoma55.325.459355,8264Tennessee54.822.864359,6955Mississippi54.525.057148,7166Kentucky53.527.160855,5737Nevada53.025.483166,2748Louisiana52.428.864152,0879Florida51.123.278463,06210Alabama50.229.461353,91311Texas50.129.774766,96312Hawaii49.624.276884,85713California49.426.379484,90714Georgia49.428.368866,55915Indiana49.426.468662,74316New Mexico49.127.972053,99217Utah48.229.991079,44918New York48.126.568374,31419Arizona47.925.483369,05620Virginia47.525.974180,96321Delaware47.226.576071,09122New Hampshire47.126.368688,46523Kansas46.828.173064,12424Maine46.626.355664,76725Idaho46.628.076366,47426New Jersey46.526.169589,29627Ohio45.828.567762,26228Pennsylvania44.929.758568,95729Nebraska44.831.375466,81730South Carolina44.731.963359,31831Oregon43.930.060471,56232Rhode Island43.425.959274,00833Wyoming43.336.481265,20434Michigan43.128.571063,49835Missouri42.826.173761,84736Colorado42.629.993782,25437Massachusetts42.629.772689,64538North Carolina42.026.565161,97239Illinois41.829.778772,20540Iowa41.734.267465,60041Alaska41.630.079077,84542Connecticut40.931.568983,77143North Dakota39.935.476066,51944Washington39.729.767784,24745Maryland39.128.377490,20346Wisconsin37.430.868967,12547Minnesota37.425.283177,72048South Dakota36.533.075966,14349Montana35.833.379063,24950Vermont34.032.758672,431