Using U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data, a new analysis found that nine of the top 10 highest-paying jobs in the United States were in health and medicine occupations.

Category: Research
Tagged: health care, Highest-paying jobs, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,

Texas ranked at the top of the list of the 736 corporate bigwigs CEO surveyed, just as it did in 2012. The Lone Star State and its individual cities have dominated scores of lists and rankings for the better part of a decade, during which time the state has cemented its reputation for creating a climate for business investment and expansion, and elevated its reputation as a world headquarters for business

Category: Research, Site Selection
Tagged: best states for business, CEO magazine, Job creation, Milken Institute, Texas economy,

Among the 50 largest U.S. metros with the greatest percentage increase in jobs from 2011 to 2012, six of the top 10 are in the South or the Southwest, including the trio of Texas darlings – Houston, Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth.

Category: Job Creation, Research
Tagged: Economy, job growth, Milken Institute, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,

Cities in the southern half of the United States are hot spots for population and economic growth, according to recent rankings. What’s behind their rise?

Category: Research
Tagged: economic growth, North Carolina, oil and gas production, talent attraction, Technology, Texas,

While U.S factories have added more than 500,000 jobs in the United States since early 2010, he notes, the manufacturing sector lost nearly 5.7 million jobs from 2000 to 2010 and U.S. companies are still operating at a 20 percent cost disadvantage.

Category: Research
Tagged: Dean Barber, manufacturing,

Housing affordability is an attribute many communities actively extoll, though it can be an attribute that underscores less positive aspects such as lack of job creation, population loss and stagnant incomes. On the flip side, communities where jobs are in abundance and demand for workers is high often have a dearth of affordable housing, making it more difficult to attract both talent and investment.

Category: Job Creation, Research
Tagged: housing affordability, Job creation,

The upheaval that was the story of U.S. manufacturing in the last couple of decades of the 20th century erased thousands of manufacturing jobs and along with it, the identities of dozens of places that were synonomous with the things they made.

Category: Job Creation, Research
Tagged: manufacturing, manufacturing jobs,