Raleigh, Cary, Durham & Chapel Hill Among Best Cities for Jobs (2009, employment)

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Forbes magazine has ranked Durham & Chapel Hill as the 4th best medium-sized cities for jobs:

Home to Duke University and the University of North Caroline-Chapel Hill, more than 43,000 college undergrads and grad students populate the city. Since 2003, jobs in the education sector have swelled by 28.8%, now numbering 57,300. Between 2007 and 2008, the region saw 0.4% job growth, a figure that was largely due to an 8% increase in government-sector jobs. A daily newspaper in Durham, the Herald-Sun, reported April 3 that the county had the second-lowest unemployment rate in the state. "The worst effects of the recession have been slower to reach our area," it wrote, "buffered as we are by a large number of jobs in usually recession-proof areas such as education and medicine."

Raleigh & Cary ranked 8th among large cities:

Raleigh-Cary is the only eastern locale to appear among the top 10 big cities. The area continued to rebound from an information-sector employment slump that spanned from 2000 to 2006. The sector recovered 2.4% from 2006 to 2007 and registered a modest 0.8% gain in 2008. Information jobs have helped the city overall, and government and other services sectors grew 4.3% and 5.6%, respectively, compensating for significant losses in natural resources, mining and construction (down 14.3%) and manufacturing (down 5.8%). Financial jobs fell 1.2% after 21.9% cumulative growth since 2000--a tough reversal in this increasingly volatile sector. Raleigh lost only 2% of jobs since 2007 after several years of heady growth from 2004 to 2007. Nevertheless, the region dropped to No. 8 from No. 1 in last year's rankings of large cities.

Best Cities For Jobs - Forbes.com

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Shouldn't that be Cary-Durham-Chapel Hill? We don't want Cary associated with an 8th place loser like Raleigh, do we? Until, that is, Raleigh moves ahead of Durham next year, then Cary will claim Raleigh again.