{"id":104582,"date":"2026-01-03T20:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/104582\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:03:08","slug":"st-pete-ranks-among-least-neediest-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/104582\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete ranks among least \u2018neediest\u2019 cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 3, 2026 &#8211; Personal finance platform WalletHub recently compared 180 U.S. cities across 28 key indicators of economic disadvantage, including child poverty, food insecurity and uninsured rates, to determine the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/cities-with-the-highest-and-lowest-population-in-need\/8795\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">neediest cities in America<\/a>&#8221; for 2026. St. Petersburg ranked No. 117 overall, No. 133 for economic well-being and No. 87 for health and safety. Detroit paced the nation, and Hialeah (No. 49) was the &#8220;neediest&#8221; city in Florida. Tampa ranked No. 129.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January 3, 2026 &#8211; Personal finance platform WalletHub recently compared 180 U.S. cities across 28 key indicators of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-104582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}