From my home state paper, the Hartford Courant comes news that New Haven ranks in the Brookings Institution's Top 20 metro areas in overall economic performance. The ranking is based on employment, unemployment rate, wages, metro gross domestic product, housing prices and foreclosure rates.
Unemployment in New Haven increased just 2.5 percent from the first quarter of 2008 to the first quarter of 2009. In Riverside, California, unemployment increased by 5.9 percent. The report suggests New Haven's concentration of jobs in "eds and meds" may have shielded it from the type of dramatic job losses experienced in other parts of the country.
Read the full report to see how your city measures up.
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