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Forbes Honors McAllen MSA with #3 National Ranking of Best Mid-Sized Cities for Jobs
Small Cities Are Becoming New Engine of Economic Growth
The conventional wisdom is that the world’s largest cities are going to be the primary drivers of economic growth and innovation. Even slums, according to a fawning article in National Geographic, represent “examples of urban vitality, not blight.” In America, it is commonly maintained by pundits that “megaregions” anchored by dense urban cores will dominate the future......
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Methodology
Forbes ranked all 398 current metropolitan statistical areas based on employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics from November 2000 through January 2012. Rankings are based on recent growth trends, mid-term gr...
