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Overall Rankings - 2011 We scored all 50 states on 43 measures of competitiveness developed with input from business groups including the National Association of Manufacturers and the Council on Competitiveness. States received points based on their rankings in each metric. Then, we separated those metrics into ten broad categories, weighting the categories based on how frequently they are cited in state economic development marketing materials. That way, our study ranks the states based on the criteria they use to sell themselves.
Here are the ten categories ranked in our study: - Cost of Doing Business - Workforce - Quality of Life - Economy - Transportation & Infrastructure - Technology & Innovation - Education - Business Friendliness - Access to Capital - Cost of Living
it's a little too subjective IMO tho. MS is rated too highly in couple of categories.
note carefully that if you click on Quality of life the states that seem to have the best balance are Colorado, MN and Mass...
that would be how i would choose to relocate if i were able to go anywhere. MS should not be higher than TN in quality of life, i am very familiar with both states and i cannot imagine how anybody would rate MS above TN. TN has so much more to offer, and the only thing MS has that TN don't is a few miles of coastline.....
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i would say that they rates NE well based on my experinces there... it was nice palce to live and had a thriving economy even if it is sparely populatered and rather desolate in the winter- the few people that are there are very pleasant to hang with
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Salt Lake City makes Fortune list of business hubs
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Salt Lake City is one of two U.S. cities making Fortune magazine's list of the world's 15 hottest up-and-coming cities for business.
Gov. Gary Herbert announced the mention in a statement Wednesday.
Fortune cited Salt Lake City's low tax rates and low-cost utilities as a reason for the ranking.
The magazine also noted start-ups emerging from the University of Utah, and a recent study pointing to Salt Lake City's workforce as the most productive in the nation.
Magazine writers spoke to corporate executives and economic development leaders to find where businesses were setting up shop. Local residents' age and personal income were key factors in the ranking.
Austin, Texas, is the other U.S. city on the list. Other cities include Vancouver, Canada; Lagos, Nigeria; Stockholm, Sweden, and Santiago, Chile.
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