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CNBC: ‘Best States To Live In’ Mutilate Kids, Free Criminals, Take All Your Money

CNBC wants you to believe states run by Democrats are the best to live in. But they rigged the data.

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The headline on CNBC’s shiny new 2026 list screams, “Best States to Live In,” complete with glossy profiles of high-“inclusiveness” northern enclaves. Don’t be fooled. This isn’t an objective guide for families seeking opportunity and security. It’s the “Quality-of-Life-according-to-leftists” sliver of CNBC’s business competitiveness study. It’s propaganda repackaged as gospel for where Americans should want to raise kids and build lives.

The methodology reveals the game. CNBC touts “hard data” on crime, air quality, health-care access, and childcare costs. Fair enough on the raw numbers. But the “evidence” is layered in heavy subjective scoring for “inclusiveness of state laws,” worker protections (such as paid-leave mandates and laws favoring labor unions), and the ability to kill the unborn without restrictions. Not to mention they are sourced from outlets including Guttmacher and Oxfam which wear their leftist priors on their sleeves.

In contrast, states resisting expansive abortion frameworks and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies get docked. The result? A neat political map: Vermont, New Jersey, Maine, Minnesota, and company at the top; Tennessee, Texas, Indiana, Louisiana, and red-leaning Southern states scraping the bottom.

This isn’t neutral analysis. It’s a preference ranking for one vision of society — more mandates, more government levers on social issues, more alignment with coastal elite values. It directly echoes........

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