Metro areas that added jobs at fastest rate 7/11 - 7/12
Growth rates Lafayette , La. 10.3 % , Columbus, In . 8.3% , Texarkana , 7%, Elkhart-Goshen , In. 6.9 % , Odessa Tx ,6.7% , Blacksburg-Christianburg-Radford Va , 6.6 % , Ames , Iowa , 6.4 % . Consider , as an example , Columbus , still has an official unemployment rate , near 7% . I would like to see what the seven worst look like ?
Surely , someone, has something to add ??
Does this look like a recovery to anyone ??
Texarcana has a federal prison..........is there a correlation?
I'm betting that somehow these areas only experienced growth due to some type of federal spending..
That is a fair question.
I think there is a bit of an oil boon happening
surprised dc isn't on this list
Consider that those are generally smaller cities- adding a couple or few hundred jobs in them will have a big impact while if you added a few hundred jobs in LA or New York it won't change the unemployment by much.
Consider this alternative chart from March. http://www.theatlanticcities.com/job...-markets/1504/
Austin and San Jose led the United States in job growth last year, according to an analysis of the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics by Aaron Renn, who blogs as The Urbanophile. Houston, Charlotte, and Nashville round out the top five. And both hard-hit Detroit and Pittsburgh make the top 10, along with Salt Lake City, Dallas, and Raleigh.
The analysis covers the 51 U.S. metros with populations of one million people or more and covers the year 2010-2011, the latest period for which full data is available.
Cities and metro areas are increasingly recognized as engines of the economy and of job creation. That is certainly the case with these job creation numbers. As Renn points out: "On the whole it was a much better year for metros than we've seen in the recent past. The national economy added jobs and all but two large metros did as well." Over the same time period, the national unemployment rate dropped from 9.1 percent to 8.3 percent and 329 of the 372 metropolitan areas had lower unemployment rates in December than one year earlier.
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Even where it is considered " good" , unemployment rate is bad.
Indiana has been looking mighty good lately.
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