Tallahassee among best cities to find a job in 2009

From U.S. News & World Report:

Tallahassee, Fla.

Florida may not seem an ideal spot to land post-recession, given that the state’s housing market was among the most extreme to boom and bust. But the unemployment rate in the state’s capital city is still 3 percentage points below the state average. Tallahassee has seen job growth in education and health services, leisure and hospitality, and in the government sector. “It has fared better than a lot of other cities,” says Laurie Hartsfield, executive director of the Knight Creative Communities Institute at Tallahassee Community College. “A lot of it has to do with being a state capital.”

While the government sector is responsible for nearly a third of the city’s employment, the city has also been helped by its universities–Florida State University and Florida A&M are both based in Tallahassee–as well as an economy driven largely by small businesses that may not have contracted as much in the recession, says J. Michael Pate, a program director for the Knight Foundation.

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