Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Forbes names Austin-Round Rock best area for jobs

From The Daily Texan, April 22, 2009...

Texans looking for a job might not have far to go, according to Forbes.

The Austin-Round Rock area had topped the magazine’s list of the Best Big Cities for Jobs, followed by four other Texas metropolitan areas: Houston-Sugarland-Baytown, San Antonio, Fort Worth-Arlington and Dallas-Plano-Irving.

Austin also is the only city out of the 50 largest U.S. metropolitan areas that added jobs in the past months, said Beverly Kerr, vice president of research at the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce.

“From February to March, there has been a net growth of over 3,000 jobs in Austin,” Kerr said.

Read more...

No comments: