The U.S. Chamber of Commerce released its annual report on states’ economic and policy performance, with a special focus on small business. The 2013 Enterprising States report provides a lot of good, well-documented information for business owners and policymakers. We’ve written about it before before. As the state did last year, Washington shows up well.

Here’s a link to a map with a brief overview of each state’s performance. Our lowest marks come in the category labeled “Talent Pipeline,” where we’re dinged for higher ed degree output (#32), higher ed efficiency (#29) and college affordability (#26).

Study co-author Joel Kotkin has a summary post here.