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?
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?
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.
The best cities for jobs offer more than just healthy employment numbers, a new report says. They also provide diverse opportunities and livability appeal.
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.
Austin is the newest city to test out Google Fiber’s 1-gigabit broadband service. What made the Lone Star capital the obvious choice?
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.
The economy may be making strides, but U.S. competitiveness is at a crossroads, according to a recent Harvard Business School survey.
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