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While new federal data indicates that Arizona lost jobs over the past three years, metro Phoenix began adding jobs last year and is among the best job gainers in the country, according to a Brookings Mountain Monitor report released today.
Though that sounds small, the Brookings Institution said that's the seventh-fastest growth rate among the 100 metro areas analyzed. Much of that growth came in the latter part of 2010, said Brookings research analyst Jonathan Rothwell.
northwest airline ticketprices and schedules A Brookings report released in December said metro Phoenix was one of two dozen metropolitan areas in the world likely on the road to "full recovery" because of improvements in personal income and jobs.
But today's report says that, despite the job growth, metro Phoenix's overall economic performance since the recession began in December 2007 puts it in the bottom fifth of the largest 100 metro areas based on job numbers, falling housing prices and weak improvement northwest airline ticketprices and schedules in gross metropolitan product.
One big problem is the housing market. Since peaking in the fourth quarter of 2006, Phoenix-area home prices have fallen 48 percent and were still dropping in the fourth quarter of 2010, Brookings said. That compares with an 18.5 percent decline in nationwide housing prices.
Several studies have identified Arizona as among the states with the fastest-growing job markets. But recently revised numbers from the Arizona Department of Commerce and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics say the state actually lost 12 percent of its jobs over the past three years.
northwest airline ticketprices and schedules The federal bureau will release northwest airline ticketprices and schedules revised job numbers for metro areas on Friday. Chad Shearer, a Brookings northwest airline ticketprices and schedules research assistant, said he didn't expect those numbers to be significantly different than Brookings'.
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