{"id":754256,"date":"2026-07-10T08:06:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/754256\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T08:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:06:31","slug":"florida-is-no-8-on-top-states-for-business-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/754256\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida is No. 8 on Top States for Business 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ihor Chopovskyi | Istock | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Florida Score and RankingCATEGORY 2026 SCORE 2026 RANK 2025 RANK 2026 GRADE INFRASTRUCTURE2073216C-ECONOMY254111BWORKFORCE26922A+QUALITY OF LIFE1433022CCOST OF DOING BUSINESS1691522BTECHNOLOGY &amp; INNOVATION1581012B+BUSINESS FRIENDLINESS1023323C-ACCESS TO CAPITAL9743AEDUCATION472929CCOST OF LIVING134848D-OVERALL145983<a id=\"headline0\"\/>Economic Profile<\/p>\n<p>Governor: Ron DeSantis, Republican<\/p>\n<p>Population: 23,462,518<\/p>\n<p>GDP growth (Q1 2026): 1.60%<\/p>\n<p>Unemployment rate (May 2026): 4.80%<\/p>\n<p>Top corporate tax rate: 5.50%<\/p>\n<p>Top individual income tax rate: None<\/p>\n<p>Gasoline tax: 58.50 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><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":"Ihor Chopovskyi | Istock | Getty Images Florida Score and RankingCATEGORY 2026 SCORE 2026 RANK 2025 RANK 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,122,101,113349,2808,2819,13951],"class_list":["post-754256","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-florida","tag-ron-desantis","tag-suppress-zephr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754256","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=754256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}