Seattle Top 11 Comeback Cities (kiplinger.com)

Seattle, WA

Seattle Washington Population: 3,407,848 Unemployment rate today: 9.3% Forecast job growth for 2011: 2.1% Clean technology, health care, hospitality and information technology will lift employment in the Seattle area by more than 2%, following a recession hit of nearly 8%. Boeing is adding to its workforce each month and electric utility Seattle City Light’s energy… Read More

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Unemployment rate at a 2 year low (AP)

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by Associated Press via the KING5.com website Posted on April 1, 2011 at 6:50 AM WASHINGTON, D.C. – The unemployment rate fell to a two-year low of 8.8 percent in March and companies added workers at the fastest two-month pace since before the recession began. The Labor Department reported Friday that the economy added 216,000… Read More

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The Big Plunge (Seattle Times)

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I saw this article this morning on Twitter from the Seattle Times The Seattle-area housing market’s big plunge Here’s a snapshot of the market on its way up in 2005, near its peak in 2007, and three years after the fall in 2010. By Eric Pryne Seattle Times business reporter Back in 2005, houses were… Read More

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Meet the Millennials (Seattle Times)

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Meet the Millennials: Our most educated generation faces a most challenging time Ushered in with the first Baby on Board signs in the early 1980s, Millennials were cocooned, coddled and chauffeured by their parents. Today, the kids are coming of age in the worst economy since the 1930s. By Bob Young JASON YU is hiding… Read More

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Microsoft Demonstrates “Heat of Recession” is Still On

Although Microsoft claims that its spree of cutting down 5,000 jobs (about 5% of 96,000 employees worldwide) before June 2010 is over but there is a doubt on that

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