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North Carolina came in 23rd nationally, well ahead of Tennessee (47th), South Carolina (46th) and Georgia (32nd). We score best in Home, Community & Workplace Safety.
Interesting metrics, as several of the criteria are based on high spending for government services. I imagine if one of the factors was safety FROM government abuse, the list would shuffle a bit.
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Home & Community Safety - Total Points: 40
Number of Murders & Non-Negligent Manslaughters per Capita: Double Weight (~5.33 Points)
Number of Forcible Rapes per Capita: Double Weight (~5.33 Points)
Number of Assaults per Capita: Double Weight (~5.33 Points)
Number of Thefts per Capita: Double Weight (~5.33 Points)
Number of Sex Offenders per Capita: Double Weight (~5.33 Points)
Number of Drug Abuses per Capita: Full Weight (~2.67 Points)
Total Law-Enforcement Employees per Capita: Full Weight (~2.67 Points)
Number of Active Firefighters per Capita: Full Weight (~2.67 Points)
Suicide Rate: Full Weight (~2.67 Points)
Bullying-Incidents Rate: Full Weight (~2.67 Points) Financial Safety- Total Points: 15
Percentage of Population Lacking Health-Insurance Coverage: Full Weight (~1.88 Points)
Unemployment Rate: Double Weight (~3.75 Points)
Foreclosure Rate: Full Weight(~1.88 Points)
Credit Score: Full Weight (~1.88 Points)
Debt per Income: Full Weight (~1.88 Points)
Poverty Rate: Full Weight (~1.88 Points)
Percentage of People with Rainy-Day Funds: Full Weight (~1.88 Points) Road Safety - Total Points: 15
Number of Fatalities per 100 Million Vehicle Miles of Travel: Full Weight (~5.00 Points)
Number of DUIs per Capita: Full Weight (~5.00 Points)
Pedestrian Fatality Rate per Capita: Full Weight (~5.00 Points)
Note: This metric also includes pedacyclists. Workplace Safety - Total Points: 15
Fatal Occupational Injury Rate per 100,000 Full-Time Workers: Double Weight (~7.50 Points)
Injury & Illness Rate per 10,000 Full-Time Workers: Full Weight (~3.75 Points)
Median Days Lost Due to Occupational Injuries & Illnesses: Full Weight (~3.75 Points) Safety from Natural Disasters - Total Points: 15
Number of Climate Disasters Causing $1 Billion+ in Damages in Past Decades: Full Weight (~7.50 Points)
Estimated Property Losses from Natural Disasters per Capita: Full Weight (~7.50 Points)
With the horrible governance from our GOP legislature and Governor the NC government has never been a more serious threat to the safety of ALL North Carolinians.
I wouldn't trust any workplace safety records that come out of Cherie K. Berry's office. She has an deplorable record on employee safety and is in the pocket of the businesses she purports to regulate. If 20 employees of Raeford Chicken fell into a vat and were ground up into chicken tenders, she would report "slight brusing had occurred" ( ...on the chicken tenders containing the ground-up people!) and "nothing serious" had happened. She's a "business is always right and the employee is always wrong" type of gal. Employee accidents get buried by her office, making the state seem to be a "shining example of safety". It isn't!!!! She's the North Carolina Commissioner of Labor who wants to keep North Carolina a "right to work for less" state and will stop at nothing to keep it this way.
North Carolina came in 23rd nationally, well ahead of Tennessee (47th), South Carolina (46th) and Georgia (32nd). We score best in Home, Community & Workplace Safety.
Interesting metrics, as several of the criteria are based on high spending for government services. I imagine if one of the factors was safety FROM government abuse, the list would shuffle a bit.
The best the entire Southeast could do is 23rd nationally? That's an embarrassment. Yay, we're average!
You got to be kidding. Virginia is absolutely in the southeast.
If you want to believe Wikipedia as a valid resource:
"There is no official Census Bureau definition of the southeastern United States. However, the Association of American Geographers defines the southeastern United States as Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia."
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