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Article: City ranks among top 10 for business
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- October 15, 2009
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The Top 10 CNNMoney.com ranks the top small metro areas to start
a small business: 1. Billings, Mont. 2. Bismarck , N.D. 3. Fargo,
N.D. 4. Rapid City, S.D. 5. Sioux Falls, S.D. 6. Midland, Texas, 7.
Morgantown, W.Va. 8. Dubuque 9. Hattiesburg, Miss. 10. Missoula,
Mont.
Dubuque has been named the eighth-best small metropolitan area in
which to launch a small business by CNNMoney.com.
The business Web site credited the strength of the area
manufacturing and insurance industries, educational options, steady
commercial property taxes, the unemployment rate and an active
financial services industry in the ranking.
"While a credit crunch has dried up small-business capital
throughout much of the ...