Fascinating: States with the highest and lowest poverty rates

What is interesting is that famously 'egalitarian' states like Minnesota and Massachusetts are not the states with the lowest benefits adjusted poverty rates.  And Texas is not at the bottom, states like Michigan and Pennsylvania are.

Ten states with the lowest benefits adjusted poverty rates:

1. Oregon

2. Wisconsin

3. Vermont

4. Oklahoma

5. Montana

6. New York

7. North Carolina

8. Delaware

9. Maryland

10. Arkansas

Ten states with the highest benefits adjusted poverty rates:

10. Michigan (1.4 percentage points above the national average)

9. Indiana (1.4 percentage points above the national average)

8. Florida (1.5 percentage points above the national average)

7. Pennsylvania (1.6 percentage points above the national average)

6. Wyoming (1.7 percentage points above the national average)

5. DC (1.7 percentage points above the national average)

4. West Virginia (1.8 percentage points above the national average)

3. Kentucky (2.7 percentage points above the national average)

2. Mississippi (2.8 percentage points above the national average)

1. Alabama (3.0 percentage points above the national average)