The Best -- and Worst -- Small-Business States A new survey ranks where entrepreneurs will find the going easiest

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2001

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NOT EXACTLY A NEUTRAL GROUP. NOTE THE RANKING OF D.C. at the bottom. Now WHY was that? After all, CorreeePeeingInDeeCee is nearby for your computer systems.

The sixth annual report by the Small Business Survival Committee, a business advocacy group headquartered in Washington, D.C., based its ratings on taxes, electricity costs, workers' pay rates, crime, and laws discouraging labor unions.

 
43  New York 54.005 
44  California 54.860 
45  New Mexico 55.410 
46  Minnesota 55.890 
47  Kansas 55.980 
48  Maine 56.150 
49  Hawaii 57.235 
50  Rhode Island 59.011 
51  Dist. Columbia 65.335 

-- Anonymous, August 15, 2001