{"id":270253,"date":"2025-11-04T05:01:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/270253\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T05:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:01:23","slug":"how-louisianas-business-climate-measures-up-against-other-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/270253\/","title":{"rendered":"How Louisiana\u2019s business climate measures up against other states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/s25562.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/iStock-1395788925-scaled.jpg.optimal.jpg\" data-caption=\"(iStock)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1068\" height=\"601\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iStock-1395788925-1068x601.jpg.optimal.jpg\"  data- alt=\"\" title=\"Louisiana State Capitol and Downtown Baton Rouge - Aerial\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1068px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1068\/601;\"\/><\/a>(iStock)<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana again ranks in the middle among states for business climate in <a href=\"https:\/\/siteselection.com\/2025-business-climate-rankings-texas-tops-business-climate-rankings-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Site Selection<\/a> magazine\u2019s latest annual rankings released today.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelican state ranked 23rd on the list. Texas was ranked No. 1 overall this year. North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and Florida rounded out the top five. Site Selection publishes the rankings annually as a benchmark for how states competitively position themselves to win capital investment and expansion projects.<\/p>\n<p>The index is based in part on a survey of corporate site selectors, who were asked to rank states by attractiveness based on their experience locating projects. States are also scored on project activity, the concentration of fast-growing Inc. 5000 companies, tax climate measures and workforce trends.<\/p>\n<p>Utilities\u2014including availability, cost and reliability\u2014remained the most important location factor, followed by permitting\/regulatory ease and transportation infrastructure. Workforce skills ranked fourth, while tax policy and workforce development resources were tied next.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/siteselection.com\/2025-business-climate-rankings-texas-tops-business-climate-rankings-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read the full story from Site Selection.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(iStock) Louisiana again ranks in the middle among states for business climate in Site Selection magazine\u2019s latest annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-270253","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\/270253","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=270253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}