{"id":324383,"date":"2026-06-05T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324383\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:22:08","slug":"ut-southwestern-declared-69th-best-university-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324383\/","title":{"rendered":"UT Southwestern declared 69th best university in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new study gauging the success or decline in economic performance in every state has revealed Texas’ economy remains stable in 2026 after it dropped out of the top five to No. 8 last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

WalletHub declared Texas boasts the No. 8 best state economy in the U.S. this year, according to its annual “Best & Worst State Economies<\/a>” report. The personal finance website’s analysts ranked all 50 states and the District of Columbia across 28 relevant metrics to measure each state’s economic activity and health status, and its “innovation potential.”<\/p>\n

Notably, Texas leads the nation for the most exports per capita in the U.S. in a five-way tie with Louisiana, Kentucky, North Dakota, and Indiana. Across the study’s three main categories, Texas ranked highly for its economic activity (No. 7) and economic health (No. 11), and the state’s “innovation potential” rank is the 24th best in the nation.<\/p>\n

This is how WalletHub ranked Texas’ economic performance, where No. 1 is considered the best and No. 25 is considered average:<\/p>\n

No. 6 \u2013 Change in non-farm payrollsNo. 8 \u2013 Change in GDPNo. 8 \u2013 Startup activityNo. 11 \u2013 Annual median household incomeNo. 18 \u2013 Government surplus\/deficit per capitaNo. 21 \u2013 Percentage of jobs in high-tech industriesNo. 30 \u2013 Unemployment rate <\/p>\n

“U.S. economic growth depends heavily on the performance of individual states, and some contribute more than others,” the report’s author wrote. “For example, California, Texas, New York and Florida have economies so large that if they were countries, they would rank in the top 20<\/a> in the world.”<\/p>\n

The five states with the worst state economies in 2026 are Rhode Island (No. 47), Maine (No. 48), Louisana (No. 49), Kentucky (No. 50), and West Virginia (No. 51).<\/p>\n

The top 10 best state economies for 2026 are: <\/p>\n

No. 1 \u2013 MassachusettsNo. 2 \u2013 WashingtonNo. 3 \u2013 UtahNo. 4 \u2013 CaliforniaNo. 5 \u2013 DelawareNo. 6 \u2013 North CarolinaNo. 7 \u2013 New YorkNo. 8 \u2013 TexasNo. 9 \u2013 ColoradoNo. 10 \u2013 Florida<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new study gauging the success or decline in economic performance in every state has revealed Texas’ economy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,426,38298],"class_list":["post-324383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-rankings","tag-ut-southwestern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}