2026 PROSPERITY CUP
4 May 2026
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If you want to know how Texas put together a corporate facility deal-making dynasty, it pays to look at the numbers.
That’s what we did in assembling the annual Site Selection tally of the top-performing states in the Prosperity Cup rankings. For the second straight year, Texas takes the crown for registering the highest scores across the 10 categories of data in the index.
Drawing upon various data points in the Conway Projects Database, the most recent annual business climate survey of Site Selection readers, 2025 Tax Foundation rankings and 2025 National Career Readiness Certificates of ACT, the index measures the relative overall competitiveness of the 50 U.S. states.
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