{"id":121,"date":"2011-12-16T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/12\/16\/brookings-maps-economic-recovery\/"},"modified":"2011-12-16T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T18:03:00","slug":"brookings-maps-economic-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/12\/16\/brookings-maps-economic-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Brookings Maps Economic Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/info\/metromonitor\/monitor_maps_dec11.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"357\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-7g3ccePmNQw\/TutzYK--DFI\/AAAAAAAAAV0\/Va2JCVSeIAs\/s400\/brookingseconomymap.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Brookings Institution<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/about.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Washington, D.C. based nonprofit policy organization<\/a>, released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/reports\/2011\/0622_metro_monitor.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">a report<\/a> that classifies the economic recovery of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the country through the third quarter of 2011. The report classified each metro area into 5 categories based on four indicators: employment change, unemployment rate change, gross metropolitan product change, and housing price index change. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/~\/media\/Files\/Programs\/Metro\/metro_monitor\/2011_12_metro_monitor\/metro_ranks\/overall_recovery_2011q3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">full list of metro areas with their classification is available here<\/a>, but Brookings has also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/info\/metromonitor\/monitor_maps_dec11.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">created a very cool interactive map<\/a>, which is symbolized by economic recovery. Additionally, clicking on one of the map&#8217;s metro areas reveals an economic recovery report for the respective metro area.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the strongest 20 metros are:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Albuquerque, NM\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Bakersfield, CA<\/li>\n<li>Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH<\/li>\n<li>Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX<\/li>\n<li>Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX<\/li>\n<li>New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Ogden-Clearfield, UT\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Provo-Orem, UT\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Rochester, NY\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Toledo, OH\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Worcester, MA\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, The Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit policy organization, released a report that classifies the economic recovery of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the country through the third quarter of 2011. The report classified each metro area &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/12\/16\/brookings-maps-economic-recovery\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}