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In boon for Baker, Mass. ranked best state
Pennsylvania? # 30 
In boon for Baker, Mass. ranked best state
U.S. News & World Report handed Governor Charlie Baker coveted bragging rights Tuesday. In the publication’s first ever national ranking of the 50 states, Massachusetts came out as “best,” boosted by strength in education and health care.
A Republican up for re-election next year, Baker ran with the news, eagerly (and wonkily) trumpeting Massachusetts’ virtues on national television.
“We have a lot of really smart people, we have a lot of great schools,” he said on CBS. “That has led to a whole series of terrific what I would call ‘ecosystems’ around technology and health care and finance and education. And you put it all together, and in this day and age, in this kind of global economy and global world we live in, it’s a terrific mix.”
But the full ranking was nuanced, showing Massachusetts lagging in economic opportunity, with low levels of affordable housing and a big gap between rich households and everyone else.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: In boon for Baker, Mass. ranked best state
Fake news from the lying mainstream media. The whole thing was rigged.