Another business-related accolade today, one week after Site Selection magazine named North Carolina as the Top Business Climate for the ninth time in ten years. Today, Newsweek included Raleigh-Durham in its list of the top 10 places in America poised for recovery.
The magazine likens the area to a New Silicon Valley “with high-paying high-tech jobs with housing prices well below those in coastal California.” It says the population of Raleigh-Durham grew faster than any major U.S. metropolitan area during the recession and that Raleigh-Durham ranked third on Newsweek’s list in terms of job growth over the last decade.
This news also follows the most recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report that shows the hard work of Governor Perdue and her Administration is paying off by North Carolina ranking second in America in employment gains over the last year. Already, USA Today named North Carolina is one of the state’s leading the nation out of the recovery.