Nine Democrat-controlled states have earned “F” grades on the new 2018 Financial State of the States report. The worst of the worst include New Jersey, Connecticut, and Illinois.

Government watchdog group Truth in Accounting just released its ninth annual Financial State of the States report grading each state on its financial policies and stability.

According to the group’s website: the report is “a nationwide analysis of the most recent state government financial information. This comprehensive analysis of the 50 states’ finances includes the most up-to-date state finance and pension data, trends across the states, and key findings.”

Unfortunately, nearly half of America’s states are in serious financial trouble.

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Of the worst of the worst, the bottom ten are all Democrat states but one. Of the ten, Kentucky is largely red now, but was recently quite blue and is in many ways a split state.

The bottom states include in descending order:

Vermont

New York

California

Delaware

Hawaii

Massachusetts

Kentucky

Illinois

Connecticut

New JerseyOn the other hand, the top ten states are nearly all controlled by the Republican Party.

The top ten, most financially secure states include:

Alaska

North Dakota

Wyoming

Utah

South Dakota

Idaho

Tennessee

Nebraska

Oregon

Iowa

You can download the report HERE.

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