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Innovation Is Thriving In Arizona

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Arizona offers one of the lowest costs of doing business in the United States, primarily because of low taxes and small state government. While the national average of per-capita income going to taxes is 9.9 percent, here the number is only 8.4 MESA: STRATEGIC LOCATION FOR TECH COMPANIES. After leasing the U.S.

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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Tennessee is proud to be a right-to-work state with no personal income tax on wages. Our state and local tax burdens are among the lowest in the country, and our state budget operates with a healthy surplus rather than a deficit.”. Iowa, Oklahoma, California and Kansas fill out the top five, respectively.

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2012 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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The United States has risen from the canvas and reclaimed its automotive heavyweight championship. For the past few years, we have issued a Metro ranking for our annual evaluation of aerospace/defense manufacturing leaders. More than 162,000 workers are directly employed in the aerospace/defense industries in the Golden State.

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BUSINESS REPORT: Maryland — SSA’s New Data Hub Moves Forward In Urbana

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The property is part of the Urbana Corporate Center, a large campus that also is home to a 60,000-square-foot data center servicing Fannie Mae, a provider of housing loans to low-income Americans. Education & Research, Energy & Sustainability, Aerospace & Defense. Targeted Industries: IT, Hospitality & Rec.,

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State Focus: Arkansas – Easy To Reach, Easy To Grow

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UALR Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology hosted the first International Conference on Information Quality in United States outside of MIT in its new, six-story, 115,000-square-foot world-class research and teaching center. The Metro Little Rock Region has a labor force of more than 480,000.

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SPECIAL REPORT: The Carolinas Are Bringing The Business

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JDIGs are awarded only to new and expanding businesses and industrial projects whose benefits exceed the costs to the state, and which would not be undertaken in North Carolina without the grant. Receipt of each annual grant is based on state-certified proof that the company has fulfilled incremental job creation requirements.

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Industry Focus: Aerospace Sector Is Flying High Again

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A fter several years of job losses, aerospace and defense sector employment is expected to grow in 2016 by more than 39,000 jobs in the U.S., Aerospace & Defense Labor Market Study. percent, of which about 185,000 jobs were lost in the defense subsector. Aerospace and defense sector companies paid $7.7