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nonbiased facts about retiring throughout the USA and Florida you might like to see
Best States to Retire
Adam McCann, Financial WriterJan 24, 2022 Retirement might be the end of your career, but it doesn’t have to be the end of financial security or life satisfaction. Retirement generally coincides with the age at which we may receive Social Security or pension benefits. However, not everyone can retire when they want to. In fact, 27% of non-retired adults haven’t saved any money for retirement, though not necessarily through any fault of their own. But in addition to when to retire, a good question to ask is where. Finding the best states to retire can be difficult without doing lots of research. Even in the most affordable areas of the U.S., most retirees cannot rely on Social Security or pension checks alone to cover all of their living expenses. Social Security benefits increase with local inflation, but they replace only about 40% of the average worker’s earnings. If retirement is still a big question mark for you because of finances, consider relocating to a state that lets you keep more money in your pocket without requiring a drastic lifestyle change. To determine the best states to retire, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 47 key indicators of retirement-friendliness. Our analysis examines affordability, health-related factors and overall quality of life. Table of Contents Main Findings Ask the Experts Methodology Main Findings 1 1 50 50 State Rank Florida 1 Virginia 2 Colorado 3 Delaware 4 Minnesota 5 North Dakota 6 Montana 7 Utah 8 Arizona 9 New Hampshire 9 Idaho 11 South Carolina 12 Wyoming 13 South Dakota 14 Wisconsin 15 California 16 Missouri 17 North Carolina 18 Massachusetts 19 Iowa 20 Pennsylvania 21 Alabama 22 Ohio 23 Kansas 24 Nevada 25 Hawaii 26 Maine 27 Vermont 28 Connecticut 29 Maryland 30 Michigan 31 Nebraska 32 Indiana 33 Texas 34 Georgia 35 New Mexico 36 Alaska 37 Oregon 38 Tennessee 39 Washington 40 Louisiana 41 West Virginia 42 Arkansas 43 Rhode Island 44 Illinois 45 Oklahoma 46 Kentucky 47 New York 48 Mississippi 49 New Jersey 50 EMBED ON YOUR WEBSITE Best & Worst States to Retire Overall Rank State Total Score Affordability Quality of Life Health Care 1 Florida 59.41 4 5 27 2 Virginia 59.32 9 7 13 3 Colorado 59.27 11 21 4 4 Delaware 56.34 6 35 15 5 Minnesota 55.85 36 3 1 6 North Dakota 54.51 25 16 16 7 Montana 54.44 14 18 31 8 Utah 54.23 19 20 26 9 Arizona 54.17 15 32 24 9 New Hampshire 54.17 34 2 8 11 Idaho 53.63 13 19 36 12 South Carolina 53.57 3 38 35 13 Wyoming 53.49 18 13 37 14 South Dakota 53.48 22 33 11 15 Wisconsin 52.72 32 10 17 16 California 52.60 30 24 12 17 Missouri 52.13 20 30 29 18 North Carolina 52.06 10 26 38 19 Massachusetts 51.77 45 1 3 20 Iowa 51.37 33 9 20 21 Pennsylvania 50.15 37 4 25 22 Alabama 49.93 1 45 50 23 Ohio 49.52 27 15 39 24 Kansas 49.30 28 28 33 25 Nevada 49.29 5 41 41 26 Hawaii 48.89 39 31 6 27 Maine 48.74 44 11 9 28 Vermont 48.71 48 6 2 29 Connecticut 48.57 42 27 5 30 Maryland 48.55 41 14 14 31 Michigan 48.48 31 25 34 32 Nebraska 48.39 35 22 22 33 Indiana 48.07 23 29 40 34 Texas 47.70 29 37 32 35 Georgia 47.64 8 40 42 36 New Mexico 47.56 24 46 30 37 Alaska 47.03 38 36 10 38 Oregon 46.89 43 17 18 39 Tennessee 46.64 2 48 48 40 Washington 46.22 46 8 23 41 Louisiana 46.03 7 47 46 42 West Virginia 45.63 17 43 45 43 Arkansas 44.43 16 48 43 44 Rhode Island 44.35 40 39 19 45 Illinois 44.27 47 23 21 46 Oklahoma 43.97 21 44 44 47 Kentucky 42.49 26 42 47 48 New York 42.47 50 12 7 49 Mississippi 41.17 12 50 49 50 New Jersey 40.27 49 34 28 Note: With the exception of “Total Score,” all of the columns in the table above depict the relative rank of that state, where a rank of 1 represents the best conditions for that metric category. |
I am retiring this year after 28 years of teaching primary (k-4 - most 2,3) I can assure you the measures being put in place with new law are valid based on child development not any other agenda. The links below are the reasons for the new law. It is to keep children being children and innocent until they are developmentally ready. This is what happens when there isn’t a law to protect children and let them be children believing in fairies, three wishes, Santa Clause, and the world is a good fair place. Really, can’t we keep them sweet, nice, innocent for 8 short years just until they lose their baby teeth?
New state sex-ed curriculum teaching second-graders about gender identity causes uproar Dalton parents enraged over 'masturbation' videos for 1st graders As to those who think little children should watch the news every night before they are old enough, I hope you have good counselors and medical doctors lined up to deal with nightmares, anxiety, and depression by the time they are nine because they see the world as one scary place with adults dying and yelling at each other. I’ve seen way too many of these children over the years too. Each year the number of these children are increasing with most talking about what they saw on tv. I will now address your concerns which really don’t have anything to do with new law. And when the first grade art project is to make a gift for mother's day and a child says I don't have a mother but I have two daddies, how should that be handled? Should that child be embarrassed and ostracized as a weirdo? Should the teacher make it clear that the only kind of family is one mother and one father? Or should the teacher be free to support that child by explaining that families come in lots of different varieties? This situation has been going on for decades - divorce, never wed, death of parent, foster care students, students being raised by grandparents, biracial families, same mom kids but different dads, blended families, adopted children from other races and countries, and gay parents. None of this is new. Good teachers always smile and affirm the child and love for caregiver. Usually responding everyone’s family is different but what makes us the same is we all love our family (or those taking care of us if foster child). The kids all smile say yes and move on. No explanation how people feel about themselves in their body is needed. If no daddy in picture, then you can make one for mommy because she is doing both jobs or you can make it for an uncle, granddad, big brother or anyone else you want to make happy. Sex is not appropriate even when learning about types of animals. Just like mammals give birth to live babies. Birds lay eggs. All mommy animals take care of babies. If child asks how get in tummy? You will learn about that latter when you are older just like you will learn to drive later when you are older and ready. 99% of time ok. For the 1% that still persist, then I tell them that you can always ask your mommy later. There is no such thing as not discussing gender and gay marriage in early school. Should every drawing in a textbook be a white child with white parents? Could there be one of a black mom and a white dad? or two mommies? Should all the pictures be sure to include a nice cross mounted on the wall? How about a Muslim hajib garbed mommy? Kids will 100% notice if they and their loved ones are not included in the presentation of family, and culture. Have you been to a Barnes and Noble book store child section lately? Every teacher I know has diverse books they read. This is an almost mandate, but again you don’t go around going oh look there is a family like Tyler’s or Naytasha that is just wrong. You drawing attention is saying others aren’t good because they weren’t called out. Families are families they all have the same hopes, dreams, and problems. You just read the book, talk about the character’s actions, theme, summary and other story element. As you read a variety of books, children learn everyone is basically same and start comparing how characters act the same because they are in same situation not because of family or color or sex. Having one Chanukah song at the Xmas pageant in December did not make the Jewish kids feels seen. It made them "othered" Here is one song for you, weirdo. And while you can remove all references to God systems from the school, you cannot remove all references to what is a family. Never had a year were religion is brought up. Even had boy do book report on all the gods his family believed in. Had one boy do a bible study at recess. Had children say they don’t believe in God when talking about reasons settlers cam to America. Always responded see that is what makes America great. We can all believe different things, but still be in the same classroom and be friends and play with each other at recess and eat together at lunch. Besides this almost all the schools have traditions are around the world time and cultures around they world and in America now. We even have international night where parents come and share food , games, fashion show etc as a fun community night. Can the woman teacher have a photo of her spouse on her desk and mention him in passing comments? What if her husband is another woman, can she mention that too? Yes have gay teachers out their. Just can’t talk about sex life anymore than heterosexual teachers can. Now if the school you are thinking about doesn’t do the above how about calming talking with principal and PTA and volunteers to help go into the school to help and change by example not through yelling demanding and throwing inappropriate things done children’s throats. You could even find good schools and have a committee of parents, teachers, administrators go an tour to see how to make things better at your school. |
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I would not want teachers teaching their views on sex to my children, no matter what they are. What is wrong with these people?
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