{"id":1721891,"date":"2022-11-02T15:04:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T19:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1721891"},"modified":"2022-11-02T15:04:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T19:04:12","slug":"virginia-ranked-top-state-for-business-in-first-year-since-republicans-took-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-ranked-top-state-for-business-in-first-year-since-republicans-took-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Ranked Top State for Business in First Year Since Republicans Took Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirginia-ranked-top-state-for-business-in-first-year-since-republicans-took-power%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1721891&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Virginia is the top state in the country for business less than a year after Republican governor Glenn Youngkin replaced\u00a0former Democratic governor Ralph Northam, according to rankings <a href=\"https:\/\/siteselection.com\/issues\/2022\/nov\/the-2022-business-climate-rankings-cover.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calculated<\/a> by business magazine <em>Site Selection<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Using an index that combines economic metrics, other publications&#8217; rankings, and <em>Site Selection<\/em>\u2018s survey of business executives, the magazine ranked Virginia as the best business climate in the country. <em>Site Selection<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/siteselection.com\/issues\/2021\/nov\/brighter-horizons.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rated<\/a> Virginia 10th in the index last year.<\/p>\n<p>The rapid rise in the rankings comes almost a year after Youngkin took office following an upset win in a state that President Joe Biden won by 10 points in 2020. Youngkin campaigned on a <a href=\"https:\/\/richmond.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/govt-and-politics\/youngkin-vows-virginia-will-be-open-for-business---with-no-shutdowns\/article_4531b71a-fd1e-5584-957b-5478f2ce1eb9.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pledge<\/a> to make Virginia &#8220;open for business&#8221; by removing pandemic restrictions to ensure that &#8220;our travel and tourism industry is open.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I come to this role with the perspective of a business leader, so I have a keen understanding of what companies are looking for,&#8221; Youngkin, the former CEO of the Carlyle Group, told <em>Site Selection<\/em>. &#8220;Step one for me is to make sure we are putting in place frameworks around a tax-friendly world, a business-friendly regulatory environment, an education system that supports the development of the best workforce, safe communities, and finally a set of principles about how government is run so that it works for efficiency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin said he invests a great deal of his own time to work toward bringing business to Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I dedicate a meaningful amount of my calendar time to economic development activities, making sure we&#8217;re thinking through the long-term needs of business,&#8221; the governor said. &#8220;You might think of me as Virginia&#8217;s chief business development officer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia is the top state in the country for business less than a year after Republican governor Glenn Youngkin replaced\u00a0former Democratic governor Ralph Northam, according to rankings calculated by business magazine Site Selection.<br \/>\nThe post Virginia Ranked Top State for Business in First Year Since Republicans Took Power appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":950724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}