{"id":459455,"date":"2010-03-22T15:41:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T19:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2010\/03\/22\/tallying-job-losses-by-metro-area\/"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:41:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T19:41:23","slug":"tallying-job-losses-by-metro-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/459455","title":{"rendered":"Tallying Job Losses, by Metro Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

How many years worth of jobs has your city lost in the Great Recession? The Brookings Institution<\/strong> has done a tally in this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the only metro area that has actually gained jobs since the outset of the recession is McAllen, Texas, a border town that has been a huge beneficiary of the North American Free Trade Agreement. McAllen has added 0.7% jobs through the fourth quarter of 2009 from its prerecession peak.<\/p>\n

In fact Texas — where rising oil prices and a smaller decline in real-estate prices has left the economy on stronger ground than most of the rest of the country — has six of the top 15 cities for job growth through the Great Recession.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, perhaps, the worst off cities are rust-belt regions that were on a downward slope long before the great recession hit. Among the worst off metros were those in manufacturing havens Ohio and Michigan.<\/p>\n

Change in Jobs, by Metro Area<\/h2>\n