KVUE Local News
- UT wins Fiesta Bowl
- City aims to improve 911 response
- FBI hiring thousands of new recruits
- Family awaits DWI offender's trial
- Obama readies for the Oval Office
- Fiesta Bowl tickets not re-selling well
- APD gets long list of recommendations
- AustinHealth: Breast cancer MRI
- UT jaded, Ohio State pumped
- Craddick backers go to Smithee
Statesman Williamson Co. News
- Hutto fire department looking for fire chief
- Charter middle school to open in East Austin
- Couple finds outlet for grief after losing firstborn
- After 20 years of service, city secretary retiring
- Georgetown officer struck while trying to help motorist
- Lake Travis finance official to retire after 20 years; Austin Voices receives $25,000 grant for high school programs
- Physician cared for Williamson County
- Despite pinch, area still saw major road and rail work in 2008
- Teen remembered by family after fatal Christmas wreck
- Quiet - teen court in session
| Austin–Round Rock Ranked Fourth in America's Best Performing Cities | | Print | |
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Austin-Round Rock ranked fourth in America's Best Performing Cities: Where America's Jobs Are Created and Sustained. Each year, the Best-Performing Cities index ranks U.S. metros based on economic growth. It includes both long-term and short-term measurements of employment and salary growth, plus indicators of high-tech output. This year's rankings of where America's jobs are being created and sustained shows the impact of a broad rebound in the technology sector, along with strong activity in exports and energy production. Texas made a strong showing in "America’s Best-Performing Cities," the Milken Institute’s annual ranking of metros based on economic growth. Although Provo-Orem, Utah, came out the winner among the 200 large metros that were studied, six major Texas metros made the top 25. Austin–Round Rock was ranked fourth, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission seventh, Killeen–Temple–Fort Hood 13th, San Antonio 15th, Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown 16th and Dallas-Plano-Irving 23rd. Within the small metros division, which included 124 areas, Texas dominated. Midland ranked first in the nation. Longview and Odessa came in at seventh and tenth, respectively. At 37th, El Paso showed the biggest gain among small metros, jumping 85 spots from its 2007 position. Complete list
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