Austin is growing at ludicrous speed, again.
Sometimes a broken record is worth playing anyway. The Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area added 101,700 jobs (9.1%) in February on a year-over-year basis, according to […]
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One out of three metro areas have recovered jobs lost during the pandemic, but this recession was unprecedented. Here’s why.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics published the November jobs report for metropolitan areas last week, providing an updated picture of the economic recovery at the […]
Read moreElon Musk is worth more than the entire Austin economy
This one is always fun. The wealthiest people in America, according to the Forbes Real Time Billionaire database (as of 10/01/2021), and how they stack […]
Read moreAugust jobs report shines a light on Upstate New York
The August jobs report for metropolitan areas is out, and the usual suspects–Austin, Phoenix, Orlando, Salt Lake City, and Seattle, to name a few–are again […]
Read moreReady or not, here come more detailed looks at what COVID-19 did to the labor market
You may or may not want to look, but we now have access to comprehensive, industry-level employment and wage data for measuring the impacts of […]
Read moreNew report shows three states and sixty-nine metro areas leading post-COVID recovery
Payroll employment has recovered in three states and sixty-nine metropolitan areas, according to data released this week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Comparing pre-COVID […]
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