There are lies, damned lies, statistics, then, there's this article.
> Now that we've accounted for the low cost of living in Mississippi, we find that Mississippi ($26,517) is no longer the state with the lowest median income in real terms. New York ($26,152) is now the state with the lowest median income due to its very high cost of living.
The amount of fuckery one must do to the data to make New York look more poor than Mississippi is mind blowing.
