Sunday, July 24, 2011

Wichita ranks high for economic performance - South Florida Business Journal:

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Brookings ranked the 100 largest U.S. metro areas on six key indicators: employment, unemployment rates, wages, grosa metropolitan product, housing prices and foreclosure The organization says the reportis “by far the most comprehensiv e analysis to date of how metro areas acrosse the nation are faring during this economic downtur n …” Wichita ranked high despite an unemployment rate of 7.1 percent and thousands of layoffs associated with the aircraft San Antonio ranked No. 1, followed by Oklahomz City, Austin, Houston and Dallas. Four of the last five are in Jacksonville, Lakeland, Tampa and Bradenton.
Detroit is the metrop with the worst economic performance in thefirst quarter. The reportf says all the metro areas lost jobs durinvgthe recession, and nearly all metro areas have seen a declinw in economic output.

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