An inability to maintain jobs and attract businesses means most U.S. state governments are losing ground to global competition, a new study reports. Many jobs can be kept in the U.S. if state governments make the right efforts to work with businesses, according to Dr. Ronald R. Pollina, author of the Top Ten Pro-Business States 2005: Keeping Jobs in America, an annual study of state and federal economic development policies. “Each job loss has a reverse multiplier effect on the local economy o...