The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, that’s who!
In their latest report, Enterprising
States: Policies That Produce, Washington state moved up five places to #8 on the list of “Top Performing
States.” The group said the rankings
were determined by a combination of the following measures:
• Long-term job growth
• Short-term job growth
• Overall expansion of gross state
product
• Productivity: state output per job
• Productivity growth: growth in
output per job
• Income growth: growth in per capita
personal income
• Livability: median income of
four-person households adjusted for state cost of living
“Led by the software industry,
Washington is one of the few states with a growing information sector.
Washington moved up five places into the top 10 largely due to its rapid
short-term job growth over the past two years.
“The
state’s manufacturing sector – led by aircraft and other transportation
equipment building – significantly outperformed the national manufacturing
industry since 2001. The Evergreen State added another 65,000 jobs in
professional, scientific and technical services; 19,000 in securities and
commodity contracts and 12,000 in electronic wholesale markets.”
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