The 2 Davids

Chief Executive magazine has again ranked Texas as the best state in the nation to conduct business.  If only the national news reporting of doom and gloom would ease, we could all get back to work.  Here is the article from Austin Business Journal. http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2009/03/16/daily36.html?surround=etf

Austin is still growing at a good pace and that will help us all through the rough times in the national economy.  The US Census Bureau now puts the population of the Austin MSA at 1.65 million.  http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2009/03/16/daily51.html?ana=e_du_pub

Soon, the second largest employment sector in Round Rock will be Health and Medical.  This is great new for our regional economy.   http://www.costar.com/News/Article.aspx?id=5B2F32F2B2D34CF17425CDE6369AFA79 When completed, this facility will accommodate over 11,000 students.

10 Great Cities for Salary Growth     by Siri Anderson, PayScale.com   We all want to know what's going to happen with the job market in 2009, especially where salaries are concerned. Is a raise in your future? It might just come down to where you live. Yet the most recent and complete numbers for salary growth in metropolitan ...

This is from the latest report from the U.S. Department of Labor.  Over the previous year, non-farm employment rose in 11 of the 38 metropolitan areas surveyed with the largest year-over-year percentage employment gain recorded in Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown (up 2.1percent), followed by San Antonio (up 2 percent); Austin-Round Rock (up ...