With health care costs rising and U.S. life expectancy declining for three consecutive years, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2020’s Healthiest & Unhealthiest Cities in America as well as accompanying videos.
To identify the places where health is a priority, WalletHub compared more than 170 of the largest U.S. cities across 43 key metrics. The data set ranges from cost of medical visit to fruit and vegetable consumption to fitness clubs per capita.
Healthiest Cities
Unhealthiest Cities
1. San Francisco, CA
165. Detroit, MI
2. Seattle, WA
166. Fort Smith, AR
3. San Diego, CA
167. Augusta, GA
4. Portland, OR
168. Huntington, WV
5. Washington, DC
169. Montgomery, AL
6. New York, NY
170. Memphis, TN
7. Denver, CO
171. Shreveport, LA
8. Irvine, CA
172. Gulfport, MS
9. Scottsdale, AZ
173. Laredo, TX
10. Chicago, IL
174. Brownsville, TX
Key Stats
To view the full report and your city’s rank, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/healthiest-cities/31072/
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UTAH WOMEN’S GROUP INVESTS MORE THAN $165,000 INTO WOMEN & GIRLS FOLLOWING NINTH ROUND OF GRANT AWARDS
Salt Lake City, Utah –– The Utah Women’s Giving Circle, a grassroots group formed in 2011 to change the statistics for women in Utah, awarded its ninth round of grants on Wednesday, February 5th, having invested more than $165,000 through a total of 46 high impact nonprofit projects.
Eight local nonprofits made it to the ballot and pitched live for the funds with projects targeting the group’s 2019 focus on healthy relationships, mirroring the prominent cultural movement taking place across the country since the dawn of the #MeToo movement. Members voted to award their collective pool of $15,000 across five initiatives:
$5,000 Grant: The Salt Lake Tribune
Matched by the Tribune's Report for America grant, funding supports dedicated reporting of stories impacting Utah women and girls
$5,000 Grant: Journey of Hope
Interrupting the cycle of violence through outreach, education and case management for girls aging out of the juvenile justice system, foster care, and homelessness
$2,000 Grant: South Valley Services
Supporting domestic violence prevention through community awareness materials and incentives to support engagement in Healthy Relationships classes across the Wasatch Front
$2,000 Grant: Girls on the Run Utah
Funding scholarships enabling underserved girls to participate in this life-changing health and confidence-oriented running curriculum and culmination 5K
$1,000 Grant: Yoga Forward
Investing in a female inmate serving a life sentence as an ongoing yoga teacher trainer, impacting potentially hundreds of women in the Utah State Prison Timpanogos Facility in the years to come
“The collective action and genuine community present in the Giving Circle makes membership very rewarding, all with a very accessible membership donation amount,” shared Pearl Wright, a longstanding member of more than five years.
“I joined tonight. It was compelling to see women coming together to fund women-focused projects,” remarked Jennifer Campbell, Executive Director at South Valley Services.
Membership is inclusive for women of all ages and incomes through a $250 annual donation or a $50 annual donation for young women under 25. Women can become Lifetime Members through a one-time gift of $1,000. Public and corporate donations are welcome. For more information, visit www.utahwomensgivingcircle.com or email wgc@utahcf.org.
The Utah Women’s Giving Circle is fiscally sponsored by the Community Foundation of Utah, a catalyst for philanthropy that is visionary, diverse, and inclusive. More information can be found at www.utahcf.org.
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Utah Women's Giving Circle
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www.UtahWomensGivingCircle.com
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What Type of Relationship Do You Have with Your Phone?
Whether you’re married or single, chances are there’s another significant other in your life you engage with even more regularly — on a daily, hourly, or maybe even moment-by-moment basis: your phone.
A growing number of people consider their phone an extension of themselves. For others, their device is more like a best friend, or even a soul mate. For the rest of us our device functions as a kind of semi-sentient presence we happen to spend a vast amount of time with. if you’re curious about your relationship with your phone here are five common types:
1. The Codependent Partner
Consider this: nearly three out of every four Americans keep their phones within five feet at all times. What’s more, one study found that 46 percent of us check our phones before we get out of bed in the morning, and 75 percent keep our phones powered up 24 hours a day. It’s no wonder then that many people separation anxiety when they’re away from their phone. A classic symptom of codependency.
2. The Nagging Spouse
It’s time to wake up. Your conference call is coming up in 10 minutes. Time to stand up and move a little. Reminder: Pay Utility Bill. Your screen time is up 50 percent from last week. With the constant barrage of alarms, reminders and notifications our phones deliver each day, you’d think we’d been married to them for years. But unlike an actual nagging spouse you can always turn notifications off or manage them to mitigate stress.
3. The Love/Hate
Smartphones. We hate them when they take so much of our attention and love them for making our lives endlessly easier the next. This love/hate relationship can serve as a source of both stress and serenity, loneliness and connection. Like any relationship that pings from one extreme to the other, for this to work in the long run it’s important to remember you need a steady dose of good to balance out the bad, and even search for middle ground when possible. (That’s what “silent mode” is for, right?)
4. The On-Again, Off-Again
In an attempt to be more present, you’ve probably ditched your phone before, or at least tried. Maybe you lasted a full 44 days phone-free. Maybe it was a weeklong separation, a weekend away or simply a phone-free dinner out with friends. Whatever your breakup history, chances are you and your phone have gotten back together again — likely many times. Don’t feel like a failure! While it’s nearly impossible for many of us to call it quits with our phones for good, there are a few healthy steps you can take for a digital detox every so often. Plus, as they say, distance makes the heart grow fonder!
5. The (Almost) True Love
Our phones are easy to fall in love with — who else answers any and every question we may have, helps us find rides, order food, play music and seemingly exist to endlessly entertain us? But there can be such a thing as too much phone love, especially when it interferes with real human relationships. As much as we rely on our phones, making sure they don’t take priority over the people we love means that any relationship you have with your device will be a healthier one. Remember to use that phone for its primary purpose — connecting with others.
So text your loved ones this Valentine’s Day. Except your mom – you should call her instead. Oh yeah, and send flowers. You can use your phone for that, too.
