Pennsylvania’s Favorable Tax Climate

By Rachel Duran

Businesses expanding and/or relocating to Pennsylvania will find a tax environment where taxes haven’t been raised in the last three years. Since Gov. Tom Corbett took office three years ago, the state has eliminated inheritance taxes on small businesses. The cap on net operating losses…

Minnesota: Manufacturing, Medicine and Clean Energy

By Rachel Hamilton

Minnesota is already home to the largest concentration, per capita, of Fortune 500 companies in the United States. Katie Clark Sieben, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), says they are making room for more businesses of all sizes to expand and grow…

Illinois Gives Businesses More to Work With

By David Hodes

With talk of balancing the state budget by reforming the public pension systems, Gov. Pat Quinn conceded that tough economic issues like this are no small issues. “Doing what’s hard isn’t always what’s popular at the moment,” he said in his state-of-the…

Delaware Grows Quality of Place Assets

By Rachel Duran

Officials in Delaware are planning for the future, including strengthening the state’s economic development advantages. In September, Gov. Jack Markell launched the Delaware Cyber Aces Program, an online cybersecurity education and training program. Delaware is one of six states hosting Cyber Aces, which has had 6…

Florida’s Vibrant Economy

By Rachel Hamilton

If you need a reason to move to Florida besides the ocean air, you could come for what Gray Swoope, Florida’s secretary of commerce, and president and CEO of Enterprise Florida Inc., calls, “an impressive, vibrant economy.”

That vibrancy is due at least in part to…