Residents in three states -- Wyoming, North Dakota and Utah
-- essentially tie as the most confident in the U.S. economy, based on their
scores on Gallup's Economic Confidence Index throughout 2017. In contrast,
Vermont residents were least confident.
Several bottom-ranking states this past
year -- including California, Hawaii, Maryland and Rhode Island -- ranked among
the top states in 2016 but were surpassed by most other states because their
confidence scores did not improve in 2017.
Massachusetts was the only other
state that did not show gains in economic confidence last year, and it finished
just outside the bottom 10 after ranking first overall in 2016 with an
identical score of +2.
On average, economic confidence improved by 20 points in
each state.
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