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More than three months of your hard-earned wages are going straight to your tax bill this year. Americans will spend an average of 29% of their income on federal, state and local taxes in 2012, the Tax Foundation announced Monday.

There must be something in the cheese: Four of the top 10 American cities for credit scores are in Wisconsin, and four more are in nearby Midwest states, according to a new analysis by Experian. But all is not sunny in the South, where the cities with the worst scores are concentrated.

South Dakota has the nation's best tax climate for business in 2011, according to the Tax Foundation. The Mount Rushmore State won the distinction for the second year in a row, beating out also sparsely-populated Alaska for the number-one spot. Wyoming, Nevada, Florida, Montana, New Hampshire,...

New York, whose economy is the world's 15th largest, has the least business friendly tax policies of any state, according to a report released today by the conservative Tax Foundation. The Empire State took the dubious distinction from New Jersey, which had it for three years in a row.

The results of CQ Press's annual State Crime Rankings are in and, for some states, the results are reassuring. For nearly two decades, these rankings have shown how the 50 states compare against the national average for six crimes: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor...

New Jersey often plays second fiddle to neighboring New York, but a new survey of the 50 U.S. states shows the Garden State bested New York in having the least favorable tax climate for business. It's the second consecutive year New Jersey has finished dead last, according to the 2010 State...