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The Best Cities For Jobs 2015

June 6, 2015/in The Economy, Urban Affairs

Appearing in: Forbes Since the U.S. economy imploded in 2008, there’s been a steady shift in leadership in job growth among our major metropolitan areas. In the earliest years, the […]

The Cities Stealing Jobs From Wall Street

June 27, 2014/in The Economy

Appearing in: Forbes When we think about American finance, the default image is of a pinstriped banker on Wall Street. But increasingly financial services is shifting away from the traditional bastions […]

America’s New Industrial Boomtowns

June 20, 2014/in The Economy

Appearing in: Forbes David Peebles works in a glass tower across from Houston’s Galleria mall, a cathedral of consumption, but his attention is focused on the city’s highly industrialized ship […]

The Cities Winning The Battle For Information Jobs 2014

May 27, 2014/in The Economy

Appearing in: Forbes In the town of Verona on the rural fringes of Madison, Wisc., there’s a Google – like campus that houses one of the country’s most rapidly growing tech […]

The Best Small And Midsize Cities For Jobs 2014

May 13, 2014/in The Economy

Appearing in: Forbes In the classic television show “The Honeymooners,” many jokes were wrung out of bus driver Ralph Cramden’s membership in the International Brotherhood of Loyal Raccoons, headquartered in […]

The Best Cities For Jobs 2014

April 30, 2014/in The Economy, Urban Affairs

Appearing in: Forbes As the recovery from the Great Recession stretches into its fifth year, the locus of economic momentum has shifted. In the early years of the recession, the […]

The Cities That Are Stealing Finance Jobs From Wall Street

May 31, 2013/in The Economy, Urban Affairs

Appearing in: Forbes.com Over the past 60 years, financial services’ share of the economy has exploded from 2.5% to 8.5% of GDP. Even if you believe, as we do, that […]

The 2013 Best Cities For Job Growth

May 6, 2013/in The Economy

Appearing in: Forbes.com The 2013 edition of our list shows many things, but perhaps the most important is which cities have momentum in the job creation sweepstakes. Right now the […]

The Best Cities for Jobs 2012

May 2, 2012/in The Economy

Appearing in: Forbes.com Throughout the brutal recession, one metropolitan area floated serenely above the carnage: Washington, D.C. Buoyed by government spending, the local economy expanded 17% from 2007 to 2012. […]

The Dispersionist Manifesto

May 9, 2011/in Urban Affairs

Appearing in: Wharton Real Estate Review We live in an era of the heady drumbeat of urban triumphalism. In a world that is now, by some measures, predominately urban, observers […]