Massachusetts is 2025 Most Improved State for Business, boosted by financial independence from D.C.

What our top state study taketh away, it giveth. Massachusetts, the Bay State, surges 18 spots after dropping 23 places last year. Massachusetts still has issues.The second most expensive state to do business in and one of the least businessfriendly, but also among the least dependent on a shrinking federal government that helps insulate the economy. Still, Massachusetts is a major recipient of federal research grants under fire by the Trump administration. The state is trying to fund some of its own resear ...