2007 Just the Facts

Employment

• Average retail price of electricity, March 2007
  (Cents per kilowatt hour; ranked by all-sector average)
• FORBES' ranking of states' business costs, 2007
• Minimum Wage, 2007
• Professional and Business Activities Employment Growth, 1997-2007
• Construction Employment Growth, 1997-2007
• Milken institute 2007 cost-of-doing-business index
• Digital Economy (2007)
• Manufacturing employment growth, 1997-2007
• Total Private-Sector Employment Growth, 1997-2007
• Information-Sector Employment Growth, 1997-2007
• Trade, Transportation, and Utilities Employment Growth, 1997-2007
• Average cost for auto insurance, 2007
• Percentage of Workers Represented by unions, 2007
• State and Local Government Employee Number and Wage, 2007
• Beacon Hill Institute's State Competitiveness Index, 2007
• 2007 State and Local Employee Average Contribution and Annual Benefit Amount

Innovation

• Knowledge Jobs 2007
• 2007 State innovation economy index
• Digital Economy 2007
• Economic Dynamism
• Average reading and math scores, 2007
• Measures of School Spending, 2006-2007
• 2007 State innovation economy index
• Mean 2008 SAT Scores of Graduating High School Seniors

Taxes and Spending

• Average effective unemployment insurance tax rate, 2007