SOUTH DAKOTA

The program’s goal is to help businesses all over rural South Dakota become more successful, put more people in their community to work, and help entrepreneurs better manage their businesses so they don’t burn out.

Speaking on USA TODAY and Wells Fargo’s Real Economy panel in South Dakota, state commissioner of economic development Pat Costello talked why the state is investing so much in growing the biosciences industry.

"It’s unfortunate regardless to whom it happens,"

The lawsuit was only the latest action involving EB-5 in South Dakota. In September, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which administers the program nationally, notified the state of its intent to drop South Dakota from the program.

Swett is home to about 6 acres of land, an empty house reputed to be haunted and a closed bar.

Why did it take so long, and why was South Dakota the last state for Obama to visit?

Since December, nine people between 12 and 24 years old have killed themselves on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota, and dozens of others have tried, but failed.

South Dakota Governor’s Office of Economic Development is trying to convince people to move there with an ad campaign reasoning the state is ‘better than Mars.’

The index continues to point to South Dakota as the most entrepreneurial-friendly state in the U.S., benefiting most from the lack of individual income tax, capital gains tax, corporate income tax and inheritance tax or "death tax.

Dakota Rising is a three-year Dakota Resources program that helps rural entrepreneurs discover new ways to grow their business.