{"id":522,"date":"2004-03-11T18:44:16","date_gmt":"2004-03-11T22:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=522"},"modified":"2009-01-16T17:57:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T21:57:47","slug":"utah-near-the-bottom-for-public-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/03\/utah-near-the-bottom-for-public-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Near the Bottom for Public Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corporatecrimereporter.com\/corruptreport.pdf\">A recent study<\/a> ranked all fifty states according to how corrupt they were.  As a measure it used the ratio of public officials convicted of corruption to the population as a whole.  Lousiana came in first, as the most corrupt state in the country.  (Actually D.C. is more corrupt, but it didn&#8217;t count as a state.)  Nebraska came in as the least corrupt state.  Utah ranked the sixth least corrupt state after Nebraska, Oregon, New Hampshire, Iowa, and Colorado.  Interestingly, Idaho, which I believe is the second most Mormon state in the Union, came in as the 17th most corrupt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study ranked all fifty states according to how corrupt they were. As a measure it used the ratio of public officials convicted of corruption to the population as a whole. Lousiana came in first, as the most corrupt state in the country. (Actually D.C. is more corrupt, but it didn&#8217;t count as a state.) Nebraska came in as the least corrupt state. Utah ranked the sixth least corrupt state after Nebraska, Oregon, New Hampshire, Iowa, and Colorado. Interestingly, Idaho, which I believe is the second most Mormon state in the Union, came in as the 17th most corrupt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mormon-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5926,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/5926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}