CALIFORNIA BUSINESS MINUTE
Ranking the States
11-30-10
Hi, I am Tim Johnson and welcome to the California Business Minute.
The Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University in Boston has released its 10th
annual State Competitiveness Report. The report examines government and fiscal
policies, security, infrastructure, human resources, technology, business incubation,
openness, environmental policy.
This year, North Dakota, Colorado, Massachusetts, Wyoming, Minnesota, Nebraska Utah,
South Dakota, Iowa, and New Hampshire round out this year’s top ten.
California finished 29th. The state finished poorly in the obvious areas of government
and fiscal policies, but surprisingly impacted by a slanted survey associated with
issues on environmental policy. Strange, Suffolk University believes that implementation
of green policies will have a negative impact on business and consumers.
The bottom ten included Hawaii, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio, Oklahoma,
Georgia, New Mexico, Alabama, West Virginia and Mississippi.
Texas finished at 25, New York at 31.
I am Tim Johnson and this has been the California Business Minute.
See for more details: http://www.beaconhill.org/Compete10/Compete2010State.pdf
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