Nebraska Receives A- Grade From Local Small Business Owners

Thumbtack (Thumbtack.com/NE), the app and website that finds you local professionals for any project, recently released the grades from its 2017 Small Business Friendliness Survey, the largest continuous study of small business perceptions of government policy in the U.S. Thumbtack surveyed more than 13,000 small business owners in 50 states and 80 cities to evaluate how easy state and local governments make it to start, operate, and grow a small business.

On overall small business friendliness, Nebraska ranked 21 (out of 50), earning an A-. Thumbtack also assigned 12 policy-specific grades, ranging from licensing requirements, tax regulations, health and safety rules and labor regulations. For more details about the report and the full set of results for Nebraska, please visit Thumbtack.com/NE.