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Overall Rank
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Competitive Advantages / Disadvantages
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Sub
Index/Variable
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Index
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Rank
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Comments
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Government
and Fiscal Policy Sub index
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State and Local Taxes
per Capita, %
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Worker's Compensation
premium rates
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Bond rating:
S&P/Moody's composite
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State Bond Rating
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Average
benefit per first payment for unemployed
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Institutions and
Security Sub index
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Crime index change (%)
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Violent crimes/100,000
inhabitants
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Thefts/100,000
inhabitants
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Murders/100,000
inhabitants
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Infrastructure Sub index
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High-Speed Lines/1000
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Travel time to work
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Median Monthly Housing
Costs
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Air passengers per
capita
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Electricity prices
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Human Resources Sub
index
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Population without
health insurance, %
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Population
that graduated from high school, 25 years+, %
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Unemployment rate
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Students
enrolled in degree-granting institutions / 1000, %
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Adults in the labor
force, %
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Infant mortality rate
(Deaths/1000 births)
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Non-federal
physicians/100,000 inhabitants
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Technology Sub index
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Academic R&D/$1,000
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NIH support to
institutions per capita
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New patents
issued/100,000 inhabitants
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S&E graduate
students/100,000 inhabitants
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Scientists and
engineers, % of labor force
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Business Incubation
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Bank deposits per capita
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Venture capital
investment per capita
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Employer firm
births/100,000 inhabitants
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Entrepreneurial Activity
index
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Forbes Cost of Doing Business
index
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Labor force represented
by unions, %
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New
publicly traded companies (IPO by metro)
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Openness Sub index
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Exports per capita
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Population born abroad,
%
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Environmental Policy Sub
index
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Toxic release,
pounds/sq. mile
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Pollution Standards
Index
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High Ozone Days, Avg.
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