Oxfam’s Patricia Stottlemyer ranks the best and worst states in the country to work

Podcasts Archives • NC Newsline · Sep 7, 2026 · 13m

Patricia Stottlemyer (Courtesy photo)

Each year around the Labor Day holiday, the international nonprofit, Oxfam, conducts and releases a study in which it ranks the best and worst states in the U.S. to work. The researchers preparing the report examine a long list of indicators – more than three dozen – that help them determine how well average workers are paid, treated, and respected in the workplace in hopes of inspiring public officials to enact more and better worker-friendly laws and policies.

Unfortunately, for North Carolina workers, the 2026 Best States to Work Index once again…