Study ranks Silicon Prairie states in Pro-Business Top 10

From our friends at the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce comes a new study result highlighting a few states in the Silicon Prairie… The study, “Pollina Corporate Top 10 Pro-Business States for 2009: Rebuilding American’s Economic Power,” evaluates and ranks states based on 33 factors, including taxes, human resources, right-to-work legislation, energy costs, infrastructure spending,…

090630_omahachamberlogoFrom our friends at the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce comes a new study result highlighting a few states in the Silicon Prairie…

The study, “Pollina Corporate Top 10 Pro-Business States for 2009: Rebuilding American’s Economic Power,” evaluates and ranks states based on 33 factors, including taxes, human resources, right-to-work legislation, energy costs, infrastructure spending, workers’ compensation laws, economic incentive programs and state economic development efforts.

According to the study, the top 10 most business-friendly states are:

  1. Virginia
  2. Utah
  3. North Carolina (2008 winner)
  4. Wyoming
  5. South Carolina
  6. South Dakota
  7. Kansas
  8. Georgia
  9. Florida
  10. Nebraska

Pollina Corporate Real Estate is a Park Ridge, Ill.-based brokerage and consulting firm, representing corporations in real estate matters on a national and international basis.

This story is part of the AIM Archive

This story is part of the AIM Institute Archive on Silicon Prairie News. AIM gifted SPN to the Nebraska Journalism Trust in January 2023. Learn more about SPN’s origin »

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