The 2016 edition of Freedom in the 50 States presents a completely revised and updated ranking of the American states based on how their policies promote freedom in the fiscal, regulatory, and personal realms. The new edition again improves upon the methodology for weighting and combining state and local policies in order to create a comprehensive index. Scholars, policymakers, and concerned citizens can assign new weights to every policy and create customized indices of freedom, or download the data for their own analyses.
Freedom Rankings of All 50 States
