Virginia ranks at the top of its region in a recent examination of workforce development throughout the U.S.
Site Selection magazine named the commonwealth No. 1 for the eight-state Atlantic region in its 2018 Regional Workforce Development Rankings.
The Old Dominion was followed in the regional ranking by: Maryland, second; Georgia, third; North Carolina, fourth; Florida, fifth; Delaware, sixth; South Carolina, seventh; and West Virginia, eighth.
The magazine ranked the states in seven regions using five criteria:
The workforce and education sub-ranking used by CNBC in its America’s Top States for Business 2017;
