1999-2000 Table of Contents - Just the Facts

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

Employment

• Private-sector job growth, 1998
• Private-sector job growth, 1991-94
• Private-sector job growth, 1995-1998
• Change in manufacturing employment, 1998
• Change in FIRE-sector employment, 1998
• Fortune 500 headquarters per million residents, 1998
• New business incorporations per business failure, 1996
• Relative cost of doing business, 1997
• Average industrial user cost for electricity, 1995-96
• Average commercial user cost for electricity, 1995-96
• Average natural gas cost for industrial users, 1995
• Average duration of UI benefits, 1997
• Workers' compensation comparative costs, 1998
• Average premium for personal auto insurance, 1996
• Percent of persons without health insurance, 1997

Innovation

• Per-student spending in public schools, 1998
• Increase in state funding for K-12, 1998
• Pupil-teacher ratio in public schools, 1996
• Change in average teacher salary, 1987-96
• Average reading scores for 4^th -graders, 1998
• Education Week grade for school standards, 1998

Taxes and spending

• State and local taxes per capita, 1996
• State and local taxes per $1,000 income, 1996
• State-only taxes per capita, 1997
• Change in state-only taxes per capita, 1995-97
• State personal income taxes per capita, 1997
• State corporate income taxes per capita, 1997
• State and local taxes on gasoline, 1998
• Local taxes per capita, 1996
• Property taxes per capita, 1996
• State and local spending per capita, 1996
• State and local government jobs per 10,000 residents, 1997
• Average annual pay, state/local employees, 1997
• State and local debt per capita, 1996
• Federal taxes per capita, 1996
• State and local government spending on hospitals, 1996
• Utility sales taxes per capita, 1996
• "Tort tax" per capita, 1996
• State & local welfare spending per capita, 1996

Medicaid

• Medicaid spending per capita, 1997

Miscellaneous

• Population change, 1997-98
• Net migration among states, 1990-98
• Percentage of nonfarm workers in the FIRE sector, 1998
• Assets of commercial banks, 1998
• Patents issued per 100,000 residents, 1996
• Median family income, 1996
• Residential building permits per 1,000 residents, 1997
• Increase in percentage of residents uninsured, 1987-97