LINCOLN- According to U.S. News' 2024 Best States Rankings, Nebraska is the third-best state overall across the country, falling behind only Utah and New Hampshire. In 2023, the cornhusker state ranked fourth. The rankings are decided by 71 metrics across categories like health care, education, economy, infrastructure, opportunity, fiscal stability, and crime.

U.S. News launched the rankings in 2017 with the goal of providing a comprehensive way to gauge how states perform across a wide array of issues, and decides rankings based on surveys conducted in each state. Nebraska ranked third in fiscal responsibility, fourth in infrastructure, and ninth in natural environment in this year's ratings.

The eight categories considered by U.S. News were assigned weights based on the surveys. Roughly 70,000 Nebraskans were asked to prioritize each subject in their state, and health care and education were weighted most heavily.

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