{"id":132916,"date":"2025-09-04T18:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/132916\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T18:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:59:12","slug":"louisiana-named-a-top-10-economic-growth-leader-for-a-fifth-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/132916\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana named a top 10 economic growth leader for a fifth straight year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Downtown-cropped-TM-copy-e1713887179525.jpg.optimal.jpg\" data-caption=\"(Photo by Tim Mueller)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"906\" height=\"514\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Downtown-cropped-TM-copy-e1713887179525.jpg.optimal.jpg\"  data- alt=\"\" title=\"Baton Rouge Art\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 906px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 906\/514;\"\/><\/a>(Photo by Tim Mueller)<\/p>\n<p>As several multibillion dollar projects progress throughout the state, Louisiana continues to earn national recognition for infrastructure investment and economic growth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/siteselection.com\/global-groundwork-index-looking-for-stability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Site Selection magazine\u2019s Global Groundwork Index<\/a> ranked Louisiana sixth in the nation for 2025\u2014the state\u2019s fifth straight year in the Top 10. Last year, Louisiana ranked fourth on the index.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Taking in all the corporate data since 2021\u2014number of projects, capital investment and jobs\u2014and the most current infrastructure funding data, Site Selection director of programming and analytics Daniel Boyer crunched the numbers on a cumulative and per-capita basis to determine the top 10 U.S. states, top 10 U.S. metros and top 10 countries outside the U.S. in the 2025 Global Groundwork Index.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessreport.com\/business\/baton-rouge-named-a-top-10-u-s-metro-for-economic-development\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Baton Rouge metropolitan area was named a Top 10 U.S. Metro<\/a> for economic development by the magazine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana Economic Development <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7369013518295003140\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">in a social media post<\/a> points to the state\u2019s utilities as powering the state\u2019s success in the rankings. Louisiana is one of only four states with multiple utilities recognized as leaders in economic development\u2014both Entergy and Cleco earned national honors for their role in driving investment and job creation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo by Tim Mueller) As several multibillion dollar projects progress throughout the state, Louisiana continues to earn national&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-132916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}