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With almost 30 percent of all nonretired adults having no retirement savings or pension, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2018’s Best & Worst States to Retire.

To help retirees find a safe, enjoyable and wallet-friendly place to call home, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 41 key metrics. The data set ranges from adjusted cost of living to weather to quality of public hospitals.

Source: WalletHub

Retiring in Rhode Island (1=Best; 25=Avg.)

  • 42nd – Adjusted Cost of Living
  • 33rd – Annual Cost of In-Home Services
  • 46th – WalletHub ‘Taxpayer’ Ranking
  • 26th – Elderly-Friendly Labor Market
  • 15th – Life Expectancy
  • 22nd – Health-Care Facilities per Capita

For the full report, visit:  https://wallethub.com/edu/best-and-worst-states-to-retire/18592/

Ryan Belmore is the owner and publisher of What's Up Newp. He took over the publication in 2012 and has grown it into a three-time Rhode Island Monthly Best Local News Blog (2018, 2019, 2020). He was named LION Publishers Member of the Year in 2020 and received the Dominique Award from the Arts & Cultural Society of Newport County the same year. He has been awarded grants for investigative and community journalism, and continues to coach and mentor new local news publications nationwide. Ryan...