Biggest and Smallest Among Worst of Top States for Business

When it comes to the worst states in our Top States for Business study, a handful almost always winds up in the final five spots. There's also usually little change in the bottom 10.

The former is once again true in our 2012 edition. But the latter certainly is not, with three states falling out.

Once again, Rhode Island finished last, scoring some 25 points less than Hawaii, a perennial bottom-five state. Those two and West Virginia (48) are the only three states to score less than 1,000 points (out of 2,500).
 Three other states ranked pretty much where they were last year: Alaska(47/49), Mississippi (46/47), Nevada (45/45).

New to the bottom 10 are Connecticut (44/39), Delaware (43/36) and New Jersey (41/30). (Check their respective state pages to see what happened.)

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