Georgia, the state more business
In the “Peach State” was created more new companies than any other, according to a new study. In this economic crisis, residents of Georgia were the most enterprising in the country to create job opportunities for themselves through the creation of new businesses. Georgia, along with Nevada had the highest rate of new business creation in 2010, according to the findings of the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, a study about entrepreneurship in America. In the “Peach State”, for every 100 thousand people, 510 each month started a business last year, compared with just 340 people out of 100 000 nationwide.
Also, Atlanta is second on the list of the 15 metropolitan cities with more companies setting up in 2010: 580 people per 100 thousand opened a company every month, compared with 620 people in Los Angeles, the city where more new businesses were created . The report, which analyzes data from the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, also took into account the different ethnic groups in their research. Latinos, for example, experienced the largest increase in business of all groups -560 100 thousand people started a business each month in 2010 compared with 460 people in 2009. This increase of 10 percent is the largest ever seen in the 15 years that these data have been collected.