The Ten Largest States: How Does New York Stack Up?

• Private-sector job growth, 1998
• Change in manufacturing employment, 1998
• State and local taxes per capita, 1996
• Property taxes per capita, 1996
• Relative Cost of Doing Business, 1997

The economy

1. Private-sector job growth, 1998
2. Private-sector job growth, 1991-94
3. Private-sector job growth, 1995-1998
4. Change in manufacturing employment, 1998
5. Change in FIRE-sector employment, 1998
6. Population change, 1997-98
7. Net migration among states, 1990-98
8. Fortune 500 headquarters per million residents, 1998
9. New business incorporations per business failure, 1996
10. Percentage of nonfarm workers in the FIRE sector, 1998
11. Assets of commercial banks, 1998
12. Patents issued per 100,000 residents, 1996
13. Median family income, 1996
14. Residential building permits per 1,000 residents, 1997

Taxes and spending

15. State and local taxes per capita, 1996
16. State and local taxes per $1,000 income, 1996
17. State-only taxes per capita, 1997
18. Change in state-only taxes per capita, 1995-97
19. State personal income taxes per capita, 1997
20. State corporate income taxes per capita, 1997
21. State and local taxes on gasoline, 1998
22. Local taxes per capita, 1996
23. Property taxes per capita, 1996
24. State and local spending per capita, 1996
25. State and local government jobs per 10,000 residents, 1997
26. Average annual pay, state/local employees, 1997
27. State and local debt per capita, 1996
28. Federal taxes per capita, 1996
29. State and local government spending on hospitals, 1996

The cost of creating jobs

30. Relative cost of doing business, 1997
31. Average industrial user cost for electricity, 1995-96
32. Average commercial user cost for electricity, 1995-96
33. Average natural gas cost for industrial users, 1995
34. Utility sales taxes per capita, 1996
35. Average duration of UI benefits, 1997
36. Workers' compensation comparative costs, 1998
37. "Tort tax" per capita, 1996
38. 38. Average premium for personal auto insurance, 1996

Health, education, welfare

39. Percent of persons without health insurance, 1997
40. Increase in percentage of residents uninsured, 1987-97
41. Medicaid spending per capita, 1997
42. State & local welfare spending per capita, 1996
43. Per-student spending in public schools, 1998
44. Increase in state funding for K-12, 1998
45. Pupil-teacher ratio in public schools, 1996
46. Change in average teacher salary, 1987-96
47. Average reading scores for 4^th -graders, 1998
48. 48. Education Week grade for school standards, 1998