Development Report Card for the States 2003
The Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) report concludes that despite more than a year of economic recovery, the economies of well-performing states are still stressed by higher unemployment, lower wage jobs, slower pay growth and declining employer-provided health coverage. CFED uses 68 measures to provide a relative, state-by-state assessment of economic development in three main areas — performance, business vitality and development capacity
Link
http://drc.cfed.org/