Connecticut and New York proved rather inhospitable to small business in a recent survey.
Thumbtack, a California-based consumer services company, released its annual small business friendliness survey. It included 18,000 business owners nationwide.
Connecticut received an F for overall business friendliness. New York received a D.
According to the survey results, business owners gave Connecticut an F for regulations; health and safety; employment, labor and hiring; tax code; environmental; zoning and training and networking programs. The state received a D+ for ease of starting a business and a C- for ease of hiring and licensing.
In New York, nearly all categories received grades in the  C range except for ease of hiring and training and networking programs, which both received a B-. The state received an F for ease of starting a business.
Last year, Connecticut”™s overall business friendliness grade was a D and New York’s was a D+. Respondents gave both states nearly failing grades for overall friendliness and for ease of starting a business, but both states fared better for their training and networking programs and for ease of hiring.
According to this year’s results, the friendliest states toward small business are Texas, Utah and New Hampshire.
NY State Small Business Division run by Empire State Development is a joke. You have staff in each regional office hand picked by Cuomo who have never run their own lemonade stand. Sadly, the patronage mill at ESD is a reflection of how the business climate is. When you don’t have staff who can help promote, market businesses or have any sense of curiosity to know what is made in ny, but the political climate by Cuomo continues to pay salaries for useless staff who don’t help business constituents the end result is poor grades.