Our Best Cities for Job Growth 2017 Rankings are a performance measure of job growth over the recent, medium, and longer term. Read more about how we calculate the rankings.
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The Cities Creating The Most High-Wage Jobs
As the country moves toward full employment, at least as economists define it, the quality of jobs has replaced joblessness as the primary concern. With wages still stagnant, rising an anemic 2.5% in the year to May, the biggest challenge for most parts of the U.S. is not getting more people into the workforce but rather driving the creation of the types of jobs that can sustain a middle-class quality of life. read more »
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The Best Small and Medium-Size Cities For Jobs 2017
Much of the U.S. media tends to see smaller cities as backwaters, inevitably left behind as the “best and brightest” head to the country’s mega-regions. The new economy, insists the Washington Post, favors large cities for start-ups and new businesses. Richard Florida has posited the emergence of a “winner take all urbanism” that tends to favor the richest cities, such as New York and San Francisco. read more »
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Move Over, San Francisco: Dallas Tops Our List Of The Best Cities For Jobs 2017
Dallas is called the Big D for a reason. Bigger, better, best: that’s the Dallas mindset. From the gigantic Cowboys stadium in Arlington to the burgeoning northern suburbs to the posh arts district downtown, Dallasites are reinventing their metropolis almost daily. The proposed urban park along the Trinity River, my Dallas friends remind me, will be 11 times bigger than New York’s Central Park. read more »
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All Cities Rankings - 2017 Best Cities for Job Growth
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2017 How We Pick the Best Cities for Job Growth
The methodology for our 2017 ranking, which seeks to measure the robustness of metro areas’ growth both recently and over time, largely corresponds to that used in previous years. The ranking is based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics “state and area” unadjusted employment data reported from November 2005 to January 2017. read more »
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