Hundreds of thousands of people are creating companies each year, ending a decades-long drought. By Sydney Ember Cassidy Winkler was working as a flight attendant on private jets when inspiration ...

Ohio tops CNBC's competitiveness rankings for the first time, driven by the nation's best infrastructure and low business costs. The Buckeye State offers companies broad market access, with more than ...

Small businesses say relentless pressures from tariffs and higher energy prices have sapped their resilience and finances. Kirsten Davenport-Norwood, who owns Greene Thumb Landscape in ...

To rank America's Top States for Business in 2026, CNBC scored all 50 states on 138 metrics in 10 broad categories of competitiveness. The fundamentals of the study, now in its 20th year, remain the ...