Chamber Briefings Newsletter – August 4, 2015
In late June, CNBC released its 2015 “Top States for Business” rankings. Virginia was ranked 1st as recently as 2011 but has now dropped for the fourth consecutive year to 12th. Virginia’s economy grew at a rate of 0.6 percent in 2011, 0.7 percent in 2012, 0.4 percent in 2013, and this past year our economic growth rate slowed to two hundredths of a percent.