Map Title: Percent Change in Real GDP by State
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Description: This Bureau of Economic Analysis map shows the percent change in gross domestic product (GDP) growth in each state. From the fourth quarter of 2022 to the first quarter of 2023, GDP growth ranged from 12.4 percent in North Dakota to 0.1 percent in Alabama and Rhode Island. Connecticut's growth rate is 0.3 percent compared to the U.S. growth rate of 2.0 percent.

Map Title: State Business Tax Climate Index
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Description: This 2023 map from the Tax Foundation visualizes the rankings of various states in the State Business Tax Climate Index, based on evaluations of their corporate, income, sales, property, and unemployment insurance taxation. Connecticut scored near the bottom, mostly due to the ranks it received for individual income tax and property tax.

Map Title: Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
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Description: This 2022 map tool from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics allows users to measure various categories of employment and wage data for various occupational fields and careers.

Map Title: United States Small Business Friendliness
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Description: Thumbtack.com's small business friendliness survey shows rankings of the best and worst cities and states in the country. The survey graded each state based on factors including licensing requirements, tax regulations, and labor and hiring regulations. (Connecticut earned an "F" in 2022.)

Map Title: Town Economic Profiles
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Description: The Connecticut Economic Resource Center produced a map showing economic profiles of each town for 2021.

Map Title: Where Nonprofits Are Mostly Prevalent in America
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Description: This 2019 Governing map shows the concentration of locally-focused nonprofit organizations across the country. In Connecticut, nonprofit organizations are generally concentrated in four metropolitan areas: (1) Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk (14.7 nonprofits per 10,000 residents), (2) Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford (13.1 nonprofits per 10,000 residents), (3) New Haven-Milford (12.6 nonprofits per 10,000 residents), and (4) Norwich-New London (11.9 nonprofits per 10,000 residents).

Map Title: Born and Raised: The Parts of America With the Most Natives
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Description: Nationally, about half of adults age 25 and older live in the state where they were born, according to the most recent American Community Survey data from the Census Bureau. This data was mapped for all counties, showing where there are large concentrations of transplants or native-born residents. Connecticut is showing varying percentage rates of native- versus foreign-born adults.

Map Title: Metro Area Job Automation Potential Map
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Description: This Governing.com map calculates the share of jobs that could potentially be automated within the 50 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. The Las Vegas, Nevada's metropolitan area had the highest susceptibility to automation and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California and Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina had the lowest. In Connecticut, 53.8% of Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford metropolitan area jobs were considered potentially automatable.

Map Title: Small Business Tax Index 2017
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Description: This Small Business Enterprise Counil map ranks states' tax environments for entrepreneurship and small business. Rankings are based on 26 tax measures, including income, capital gains, property, death, unemployment, and consumption taxes. Connecticut is ranked 41st among states.