Best Cities for Jobs and Economic Growth

This Milken Institute has a cool study of the top 200 metropolitan areas in the US, ranked according to jobs and economic growth. As always, it's good to be in Texas (8 of the top 25 cities are in the Lone Star State). Here is the top 25 areas. Make sure you check out the rest here.

Best Performing Cities 1 - 25
2009 Rank	2008 Rank	Metropolitan Area
1	4	Austin-Round Rock, TX MSA
2	13	Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood, TX MSA
3	3	Salt Lake City, UT MSA
4	7	McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX MSA
5	16	Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX MSA
6	21	Durham, NC MSA
7	9	Olympia, WA MSA
8	5	Huntsville, AL MSA
9	14	Lafayette, LA MSA
10	2	Raleigh-Cary, NC MSA
11	15	San Antonio, TX MSA
12	29	Fort Worth-Arlington, TX MD
13	23	Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX MD
14	37	El Paso, TX MSA
15	45	Wichita, KS MSA
16	88	Corpus Christi, TX MSA
17	17	Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA MD
18	40	Baton Rouge, LA MSA
19	72	Tulsa, OK MSA
20	20	Greeley, CO MSA
21	8	Tacoma, WA MD
22	48	Fort Collins-Loveland, CO MSA
23	54	Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR MSA
24	67	Shreveport-Bossier City, LA MSA
25	41	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV MD