Iowa ranks eighth for growth
Posted on Thursday, May 27 at 1:46pm
The National Chamber Foundation and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced today that Iowa is the 8th Most Enterprising State. They stated, among other things, I-JOBS as one of the reasons for the state's top economic performance.
Jeff Eckhoff from the Des Moines Register covered the story:
Iowa’s focus on entrepreneurship, innovation and exports has led to an eighth-place ranking on a list of top economic-performing states compiled by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and National Chamber Foundation.
Iowa ranked high overall as “a solid performer across most of our metrics,” according to the chamber’s newly released Enterprising States survey, largely because “Iowa’s strength is perhaps its stability. The state’s largest cluster, agribusiness, food processing and technology, grew at a 1 percent rate since 2002, significantly better performing than the same group of industries nationally.”
The business group also listed Iowa seventh under “top export performers” due to overseas trade offices that provide help to Iowa companies looking to tap international markets. According to the study, “efforts are paying off, as the state places fourth in growth of exports as a share of gross state product.”