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10 Best Performing Metro Areas for Job Creation 2009

Publisher: 
Milken Institute

The Milken Institute / Greenstreet Real Estate Partners reported the following metro areas as the leading ten best performing cities in their "Best-Performing Cities Index" for 2009:

  1. Austin-Round Rock, Texas
  2. Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood, Texas
  3. Salt Lake City, Utah
  4. McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas
  5. Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas
  6. Durham, North Carolina
  7. Olympia, Washington
  8. Huntsville, Alabama
  9. Lafayette, Louisiana
  10. Raleigh-Cary, North Carolina