With fresh starts in mind – hiring is up with the lowest unemployment rate in close to fifty years yet single-family housing starts are on a slight downward trend, for instance – the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2019’s Best & Worst States to Raise a Family as well as accompanying videos.

To determine the best states in which to put down family roots, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 49 key indicators of family-friendliness. The data set ranges from median family salary to housing affordability to unemployment rate.

Raising a Family in New Jersey (1=Best; 25=Avg.):

• 11^th – % of Families with Young Kids
• 16^th – Child-Care Costs (Adjusted for Median Family Income)
• 4^th – Infant-Mortality Rate
• 3^rd – Median Family Salary (Adjusted for Cost of Living)
• 8^th – Violent-Crime Rate
• 14^th – % of Families in Poverty
• 4^th – Separation & Divorce Rate

For the full report, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-states-to-raise-a-family/31065/