{"id":752991,"date":"2026-07-09T17:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/752991\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:52:20","slug":"minnesota-is-no-5-on-top-states-for-business-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/752991\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota is No. 5 on Top States for Business 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Fernandez | Moment | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Score and RankingCATEGORY 2026 SCORE 2026 RANK 2025 RANK 2026 GRADE INFRASTRUCTURE28575A-ECONOMY278828A-WORKFORCE1812730C-QUALITY OF LIFE21044ACOST OF DOING BUSINESS1353134C+TECHNOLOGY &amp; INNOVATION1531414B+BUSINESS FRIENDLINESS1291621C+ACCESS TO CAPITAL572118CEDUCATION641012B+COST OF LIVING272233C+OVERALL1519510<a id=\"headline0\"\/>Economic Profile<\/p>\n<p>Governor: Tim Walz, Democrat<\/p>\n<p>Population: 5,830,405<\/p>\n<p>GDP growth (Q1 2026): 0.30%<\/p>\n<p>Unemployment rate (May 2026): 4.40%<\/p>\n<p>Top corporate tax rate: 9.80%<\/p>\n<p>Top individual income tax rate: 9.85%<\/p>\n<p>Gasoline tax: 51.10 cents\/gallon<\/p>\n<p>Bond rating (Moody&#8217;s\/S&amp;P): Aaa, Stable\/AAA, Stable<\/p>\n<p>Economic profile sources: U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federation of Tax Administrators, American Petroleum Institute (including 18.40 cent\/gallon federal tax), Moody&#8217;s Investor Service, S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence<\/p>\n<p>More coverage of the 2026 America&#8217;s Top States for Business<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Fernandez | Moment | Getty Images Minnesota Score and RankingCATEGORY 2026 SCORE 2026 RANK 2025 RANK 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,122,101,113349,6429,13951,8631],"class_list":["post-752991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-economy","tag-exclude-from-automated-curation","tag-minnesota","tag-suppress-zephr","tag-tim-walz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752991","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=752991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}