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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Best States for Business (and jobs)-

From the Professional Insurance Agents(PIA) newsletter, July 19,2010 edition


Texas Tops List

CNBC does an annual survey of the best states for

business. Texas tops this year’s survey. Here are the

top-10 states:

1. Texas

2. Virginia

3. Colorado

4. North Carolina

5. Massachusetts

6. Iowa

7. South Dakota

8. Minnesota & Utah — tie

9. Georgia

Last year’s winner was Virginia. The two states swap the top spot every year. Texas was

top in 2008. Virginia was number one the first year of the survey in 2007.

These are the categories used to select the top states:

• Cost of Doing Business — 450 point

• Workforce — 350 points

• Quality of Life — 350 points

• Economy — 314 points

• Transportation & infrastructure — 300 points

• Technology & innovation — 250 points

• Education — 175 points

• Business friendliness — 175 points

• Access to capital — 50 points

• Cost of living — 25 points

According to the survey Alaska is bottom state for business. A high cost of living, high

cost of doing business and lack of infrastructure are the reasons.

Here is the bottom four:

1. Alaska

2. Rhode Island

3. Hawaii

4. Nevada

California and Hawaii are the most expensive states to live in and New York has the

highest cost of doing business.

Here is how the nine PIA Western Alliance states did in the survey:

15. Washington

18. Arizona

23. Oregon

26. Idaho

32. California — tied with Arkansas

36. Montana

38. New Mexico

47. Nevada

50. Alaska
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