The Tax Foundation created a map that shows the real value of $100 in each state.
How does your state measure up?
The states that "offer the biggest bang for your buck” are:
Mississippi – $115.74
Arkansas – $114.16
Alabama – $113.51
Missouri – $113.51
South Dakota – $113.38
The states where $100 has the least value are:
Washington, D.C. – $84.60
Hawaii – $85.32
New York – $86.66
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Southern California’s largest utility company has reportedly laid off 400 American tech workers and filled their positions with lower-paid workers on H-1B visas approved by the Obama administration.
To make matters worse, the Los Angeles company is requiring the laid-off American workers to train their replacements.
A news release from Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) explains,
“American workers…
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Petty Officer Tim Putnam told ABC News that the Coast Guard members by chance saw the Labrador jump into Lake Betsie. The rescue crew then rushed to get into their dry suits and save the dog.
That is one lucky pup.
The 20-minute-long rescue was “…
Every human life is a gift from God. This father wholeheartedly believes that.
Samuel Forrest and his wife met their beautiful son Leo in the delivery room on Jan. 21, 2015. The two new parents, however, had sharply different reactions.
Seated in the waiting room, Forrest saw a pediatrician walk out with his son, swaddled in blue blankets.
"This pediatrician walks out of the room with a…
Need we say more about the dangers of walking and texting?
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KTLA captured footage of the event. Check out the video and see for yourself!
Live from Vatican City, Pope Francis held a Google+ Hangout Thursday morning featuring students with disabilities and special needs from Spain, India, Brazil, and the U.S. to discuss how technology might help improve their learning.
This is his second Google+ Hangout, part of the Scholas Occurrentes initiative to challenge students, developers, and experts to use technology to improve…
Live from Vatican City, Pope Francis held a Google+ Hangout featuring students with disabilities and special needs from Spain, India, Brazil, and the U.S. to discuss how technology might help improve their learning.
A question asked during an Oklahoma high school biology class has cause to outrage parents across the country.
The question, posed in multiple choice form, asks Edmund Public School ninth grade students, ages 14 to 15, to decide whether a baby in the womb with a possible birth defect should be born with the gene, given therapy to repair the gene, or terminated.
The question reads as follows…
North Texas is now home to the first official Islamic Tribunal in the U.S.
Comprised of four judges, the Islamic Tribunal follows Sharia Law, a Muslim religious moral code that settles disputes in many countries in the Middle East.
Located at a mosque in Irving, Texas, such an establishment may come as a shock to many Americans who, as U.S. citizens, first and foremost live and abide by the…
A 911 operator told a teenage girl phoning for help to “stop whining” just after her father was struck by a car while trying to change a flat tire on the side of a highway, reported NBC.
Rick Warrick, 38, was on the way to Dave & Busters with his fiancée and two teenage children for a family outing when they got a flat tire. He pulled over onto the shoulder of Baltimore Parkway to change…
