In the past four years, only seven of the nation’s 100 biggest metros added more jobs than they lost during the recession, according to recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Five of those cities were in Texas. What has kept the top metro job creators so resilient – and what are other cities doing to catch up?

Categories: Job Creation, Research
Tagged: Austin TX, Charleston SC, El Paso TX, Houston TX, Nashville TN, private sector employment, recession, San Antonio TX, Texas,

By 2020, the U.S. is expected to add nearly 7 million creative class jobs. Where will these jobs be? Workers may not have to go to a big city to find them anymore. They are becoming an integral part of the creative economy growing across the U.S.

Categories: Job Creation, Workforce Development
Tagged: Charlotte, creative class, creative economy, knowledge-based jobs, manufacturing, N.C., Nashville Tenn., recession, Richard Florida, small cities, workforce,

What will the factories of the future look like? Automation will be more common, and workers will need to possess creative and analytical skills as much as brute strength and dexterity.

Categories: Job Creation, Workforce Development
Tagged: creative class, factories, high-tech manufacturing, Innovation, manufacturing, production, recession, skills gap, talent gap, workforce,

The biggest obstacle for job creation in the new year may not be the economy or the talent gap; it may be the information technology that is rapidly replacing physical jobs with digitized ones. What can workers do to find their place in this new economic landscape?

Categories: Job Creation
Tagged: digitization, Entrepreneurship, information technology, jobs, recession, second economy, workforce,

Workers displaced during the Recession are struggling to find jobs comparable in pay. What new skills do they need to to succeed in today’s economy, and how can they acquire them?

Categories: Workforce Development
Tagged: Akron OH, analytic skills, displaced workers, Economy, high-tech manufacturing, job gap, manufacturing, recession, Richard Florida, skill sets, unemployment, workforce training,

What’s the future of manufacturing in the U.S? Signs point to a major resurgence in the sector — but innovation is key to keeping that momentum going.

Categories: Job Creation, Research
Tagged: 787 Dreamliner, Akron Ohio, Alexander Hamilton, Boeing, Innovation, manufacturing, manufacturing jobs, Ravi Sawhney, recession, Reshoring, South Carolina, U.S. competitiveness, Volkswagen, workforce,

Job growth may be inching up, but the economy is taking its own sweet time to recover. Statistics show that it will be 2015 before most states regain their pre-Recession employment levels. Is it possible for any region to beat those odds? Here is one way.

Categories: Job Creation, Research, Site Selection
Tagged: BR&E, California, Dean Barber, existing industries, job growth, jobs recovery, manufacturing, Midwest, Mt. Sterling Kentucky, Nebraska, Nevada, recession, South, South Dakota, Texas, U.S. job market, Wall Street Journal,