The isolated states, and the salaries needed for $100,000 take-home pay, were pulled from a separate GOBankingRates study on the income needed in each state for taking home $100,000.

Not surprisingly, people in the nation’s poorest states tend to spend the most on health care, the analysis shows. Mississippi topped the list, with residents spending 18.66% of their median ...

On a sweltering summer day, children leap between rocks along the Bronx River while cyclists pedal on newly paved paths. Kayaks rest on what was once an industrial dumping ground, now transformed into ...

Oklahoma, sad to say, is one of the hungriest states in the nation. It's also one of the unhealthiest. Both are consequences of the fact that we're one of the poorest states in the nation. We'll ...

That means that those 62 people have the same collective wealth as the world's poorest 3.6 billion people, and the gap between rich and poor is growing wider, the report released by Oxfam states.

Oklahoma, sad to say, is one of the hungriest states in the nation. It's also one of the unhealthiest. Both are consequences of the fact that we're one of the poorest states in the nation. We'll ...