Delaware is best state for workers: study
Posted on: Tuesday, 25 October 2005, 09:49 CDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Delaware is the best state for workers in the United States, getting high marks for job opportunities, job quality and workplace fairness in a study published on Tuesday.
New Hampshire, Minnesota, Vermont and Iowa also scored high in the Work Environment Index (WEI), developed by researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Louisiana ranked last, while Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, South Carolina and Utah also got poor marks.
The index ranked working environments in terms of average pay, benefits, job opportunities, equal treatment of men and women and ability to unionize.
It is the first index to evaluate worker climate instead of business climate on a state-by-state basis, its authors said.
There is a consistent link between the quality of a state's environment for workers and its economic health, the authors said, and high-ranking states have faster growth and lower poverty rates than those at the bottom of the list.
Source: REUTERS
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