• World-class research and development facilities
• Highly-skilled technical workforce
• Advanced manufacturing capabilities
• Low cost manufacturing environment
• Lower energy costs:
• Reliable, substantially less expensive electricity
• Abundant natural gas
• Abundant, affordable land
• Strategic location for West coast, Midwest and border markets, vendors, suppliers
• Excellent transportation corridors provided by I-10, I-25, I-40
• Temperate weather, lack of natural disasters, minimal airport closures
• Stable, pro-business climate with State level commitment to growth
• Incentives
• Job training
• Tax credits
• Grants
• Quality of Life
• Diverse population and communities
• Extensive creative and cultural opportunities
• Abundant outdoor recreation

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• Labor Force: 885,000
  Population: 1,800,000 (2000 census)
  Average wage per job: $28,700 - 15th lowest in US
  Median age: 34.6 years

Workers Compensation: #36 in the nation - California is #1
College education: 22% of the population have at least a bachelors degree

PhDs as a percentage of the workforce: #1 in the nation

• Research budgets of New Mexico's National Labs + research universities: $5bn annually
• Albuquerque and Santa Fe were cited by Carnegie Mellon's Professor Richard Florida as centers of the "Creative Class"- those people whose economic function is to create new ideas, new technology, and new creative content.
• Energy extraction: #2 in US
• Days of sunshine: 360