Top 5 fastest-growing states

3. Indiana – up 4.6 percent

Joe Harpring / The Republic / AP / File
Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman joins company and local officials for an announcement that enginemaker Cummins Inc. would spend $100 million to expand a southern Indiana factory and hire 200 people on July 9, 2010, in Seymour, Ind. The jobs would be added in manufacturing and engineering over the next five years.

As one of the states hit hardest in 2009, Indiana has made a dramatic turnaround in 2010. Manufacturing of durable goods contributed more than two percentage points to the state's impressive 4.6 percent growth. The Hoosier State now has a $245 billion GDP. It sits in the middle of the pack in terms of unemployment, which stood at 8.2 percent in April 2011.

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