In the Kauffman Index of Main Street Entrepreneurship report released yesterday, Wisconsin ranked second in small business activity.
The annual calculates a broad index measure of small and local business activity across all U.S. states. Wisconsin had a 50.77 percent survival rate for firms, while 6.46 percent of the state’s population own a business as their primary job.
The second-place ranking is up one from the 2015 report; Minnesota took the top spot for the second consecutive year.