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You know that feeling when you’re looking at something it’s not provocative, entertaining, but it’s interesting enough to peak your interest. That’s what this new article by Institute for Economics and Peace is.

The article revealed the top ten most and least places in the United States. In the article Louisiana was named the least peaceful and briefly mention as the laziest state in America. The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) is an independent non-for-profit international research institute that specializes in peacefulness, understanding peacefulness and analyzing factors that create peacefulness. IEP was founded in 2007 and has offices in New York and Sydney, Australia.

This article is their first United States peace index. Certainly Louisiana has earned it reputation as least peaceful state with high crime rates among United States, but what factors determine the most laziest state? The state's unemployment rate?

The IEP is known as a think tank, a research institute (usually independently financed) staffed with experts engaged in the study of policy issues in business and government. The problem with think tanks is they are supposed to be neutral sources without any ideological predispositions, but some represents a particular perspective. It is up to you if this article hides an agenda.

But as a Louisianan, I don’t have any ill toward feelings about this article, if anything it’s indifferent. When articles about Texas and New York come out people don’t get up in arms about it. If the article is good about them they say, “We know” and if the article is bad about them they say, “Who cares don’t come to our state then.” That’s the attitude Louisianans should have, especially about this article. Say what you want to say about my state, but I'm moving on to the next article.

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