{"id":376795,"date":"2026-07-17T13:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376795\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:06:13","slug":"study-ranks-texas-among-the-five-most-financially-distressed-states-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376795\/","title":{"rendered":"Study ranks Texas among the five most financially distressed states in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Texas was ranked as the most financially stressed state in the nation in a survey from WalletHub.<\/p>\n<p>This year, we have a little something to celebrate as we are no longer No. 1!<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re still not completely secure with our wallets though, as Texas still ranked in the top five most financially stressed states in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/states-with-the-most-people-in-financial-distress\/130790\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">WalletHub<\/a> ranked Texas No 4 in the U.S., finding that Texas had the fourth-biggest spike in bankruptcy filings across the country from March 2025 to March 2026, and that Texas residents had the 10th worst average credit scores in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The ten most financially stressed states in the nation, according to the study, are:<\/p>\n<p>1 \u2013 Kansas<br \/>2 \u2013 Louisiana<br \/>3 \u2013 Florida<br \/>4 \u2013 Texas<br \/>5 \u2013 South Carolina<br \/>6 \u2013 Wyoming<br \/>7 \u2013 Georgia<br \/>8 \u2013 California<br \/>9 \u2013 North Carolina<br \/>10 \u2013 Kentucky<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go.audacy.com\/jackontheweb\/listen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LISTEN <\/a>on the Audacy App<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/jackontheweb\/newsletter\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign Up<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/go.audacy.com\/jackontheweb\/download\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow 100.3 JACK-FM<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/go.audacy.com\/jackontheweb\/download\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JackFMDFW\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackFMDFW\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jackfmdfw\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a><br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, Texas was ranked as the most financially stressed state in the nation in a survey from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-376795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376795","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=376795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}