For the first time in the 20 years that CNBC has ranked America’s top states for business, Hawaiʻi came in dead last.
Fiftieth. Last in infrastructure. Last in the cost of doing business. Among the worst for cost of living, workforce, access to capital, and business friendliness.
Even Hawaiʻi’s quality of life — the category that has quietly propped the islands up for two decades — slipped to sixth this year, dragged down by childcare that now costs more here than in any other state…