A new study reveals that Georgians are most eager to find jobs in the United States, with the highest volume of monthly job-hunting keyword searches per 100,000 people. 

The localization management platform Centus used Google Keyword Planner to analyze the search volume data for each U.S. state in the past year for keywords related to finding a job. These keywords included “Glassdoor,” “ZipRecruiter,” “Indeed Jobs,” and “Job near me.” To avoid population bias, a monthly search volume per 100,000 people was then calculated. 

 Top 10 most eager states to find a new job 

1. Georgia­—4,272 monthly Google searches for job-hunting keywords per 100,000 people. On average, the state has a total of 471,142 searches for job-hunting keywords every month. 
2. Delaware—3,561 monthly searches for keywords related to finding a job per 100,000 residents, and an average monthly total of 36,743 searches.
3. Florida—3,546 monthly searches for job-hunting keywords for every 100,000 people, and a total of 801,696 searches on average per month.
4. Mississippi—3,516 searches every month for every 100,000 people, and a total of 103,353 job-seeking searches per month.
5. Maryland—3,459 monthly searches per 100,000 people, and a total of 213,755 each month on average.
6. North Carolina—3,428 monthly searches for every 100,000 people, and an average monthly total of 371,397 over the last year.
7. Texas—3,422 monthly searches on average per 100,000 people, and a total of 1,043,728 every month—the second highest on the list.
8. Illinois—3,389 monthly searches for every 100,000 residents, and a total of 425,321 per month over the last year.
9. Arizona—3,360 monthly job-hunting searches for every 100,000 people, and a total of 249,675 searches per month.
10. South Carolina—3,318 monthly searches on average per 100,000 people, and a total of 178,283 searches every month over the last year.

According to a recent Gallup poll, fewer Americans consider childhood vaccines important today compared to five years ago. Only 40% of Americans said it is extremely important for parents to have their children vaccinated, down from 58% in 2019 and 64% in 2001. Gallup noticed a similar decline in the combined “extremely” and “very important” percentage, which was 94% in 2001 but sits at 69% today.

The poll also found 7% said it is not at all important this year, in contrast to 2001 when 1% said having children vaccinated was not at all important.

Republicans and republican-leaning independents accounted for the decline in perceived importance of childhood vaccinations, Gallup reported. Only 26% of Republicans and Republican leaners—half as many as in 2019—believe it is extremely important for parents to get their children vaccinated. The views of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents have changed little over the past 24 years. 

In the initial Gallup poll on vaccinations in 2021, Republicans and Republican leaners (62%) held similar views to Democrats and Democratic leaners (66%); the two groups now differ by 37 percentage points.

Consistent with the decline in the perceived importance of vaccines, Americans are now much less likely than in the past to say the government should require children to be vaccinated against contagious diseases such as measles. Fifty-one percent now hold this view, down from 62% in 2019. Princeton Survey Research Associates also asked this question in a 1991 poll, which found 81% in favor of vaccine requirements at that time. Gallup said Republicans largely account for this change.

Despite these results, 88% of U.S. adults said they have heard a great deal (53%) or fair amount (35%) about the advantages of vaccinations, similar to the 89% recorded in 2019. Meanwhile, 63% report hearing a great deal (27%) or fair amount (36%) about the possible disadvantages of vaccinations for children, down from 79% in 2019.