Millennials are often portrayed as shiftless, low-earning slackers who can't quite seem to make the whole "being an adult" thing work. But in which U.S. states do those stereotypes hold true, and which others are places where millennials tend to thrive?
To find out, the personal-finance site WalletHub crunched the numbers on everything from states' millennial employment rates to their millennial voter-turnout rate and determined that these are the 10 best states for millennials:
- North Dakota
- Minnesota
- South Dakota
- Iowa
- District of Columbia
- Utah
- Wyoming
- Wisconsin
- Colorado
- Nebraska
And these are the 10 worst states:
- West Virginia
- Mississippi
- Alabama
- New Mexico
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- Louisiana
- Nevada
- Georgia
- Florida
Source: North Patch, WalletHub