Congratulations,
Washington! Three new top 10 lists are once again shining the spotlight on our
role as a national leader.
The Puget Sound Business Journal reports
today that the
conservative Tax Foundation’s 2012 State Business
Tax Climate Index
ranks Washington as having the seventh best business-friendly tax climate in
the nation. Washington climbed four spots on the new list, rising from
the 11th best in the nation on the 2011 rankings of
business-friendly tax climates.
Meanwhile,
a ForbesWoman
study found that women still only earn between 70 to 80 cents for every dollar
earned by men, but that some cities shine when it comes to pay for full-time,
year-round female workers. ForbesWoman scoured the United States to find the Best Paying Cities for Women. Coming in at #10 (drum
roll): Seattle.
If you can
read this you may be one of the reasons Seattle is number two on yet another
top-ten list. According to a Central
Connecticut State University study
of the most literate U.S. cities, Seattleites are some of the best readers in
the nation, second only to Washington D.C.
The study
used newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical
publishing resources, educational attainment, and Internet resources for its
findings.
Washingtonians
cheer when the Huskies or Cougars make the top 10 in college football. Ranking
with the very best in measures of economic competitiveness, fairness and
literacy gives all of us a good reason to cheer for Washington, too.
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