Top Ten Pro-Business States

Chicago-based Pollina Corporate Real Estate Inc. has just released a new study, called "The Top Ten Pro-Business States 2005: Keeping Jobs in America," which weighed 26 factors such as the rate of unemployment, right to work laws, corporate and personal income taxes, sales taxes -- and how effective a state's economic development programs are.

Pollina's top 10 list of pro-business states are South Carolina, included Virginia, South Dakota, North Carolina, Alabama, Wyoming, Georgia, Washington, Florida and Oklahoma.

More here. Note: You must purchase the study.