{"id":1310266,"date":"2019-05-14T13:04:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T19:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=978231"},"modified":"2019-05-14T13:04:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T19:04:26","slug":"colorado-ranked-as-10th-best-state-despite-its-economy-being-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/colorado-ranked-as-10th-best-state-despite-its-economy-being-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado ranked as 10th best state despite its economy being No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the third year in a row, Colorado\u2019s economy ranked first among U.S. states, according to the U.S. News & World Report\u2019s annual Best States Rankings<\/a>, released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Despite that strong showing, the state came in 10th overall in magazine\u2019s ranking of states. In that regard, Colorado isn\u2019t unlike the Denver Nuggets, which relied heavily on star center Nikola Jokic, but fell well short of a championship because of shortcomings elsewhere on the team<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last year, the state also ranked 10th, and in the study\u2019s inaugural year, 2017, it ranked 9th. Colorado didn\u2019t advance, despite having Denver and Colorado Springs holding the No. 2 and 3 spots on the magazine\u2019s list of best places<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cColorado takes the No. 1 spot in the economy ranking, with an impressive performance in measures of growth and entrepreneurship,\u201d said Deidre McPhillips, senior data editor at U.S. News & World Report. \u201cHowever, the state ranks 12th and 11th in health care and education \u2014 the two most heavily weighted categories \u2014 and also falls in the bottom half of states in four of the eight categories assessed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study looked at 71 measures across eight broad categories. The four categories where Colorado ranked in the bottom half included crime and corrections, No. 29; fiscal stability, No. 29; opportunity, No. 28; and environment, No. 31.<\/p>\n

Continue reading at Denverpost.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Panorama of Denver skylineshutterstock.com For the third year in a row, Colorado\u2019s economy ranked first among U.S. states, according to the U.S. News & World Report\u2019s annual Best States Rankings, released on Tuesday. Despite that strong showing, the state came in 10th overall in magazine\u2019s ranking of states. In that regard, Colorado isn\u2019t unlike the Denver […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1310266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 09:46:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}