The Best Small and Medium-Size Cities For Jobs 2017

What makes for successful smaller cities?

Much of the U.S. media tends to see smaller cities as backwaters, inevitably left behind as the "best and brightest" head to the country’s mega-regions. The new economy, insists the Washington Post, favors large cities for start-ups and new businesses. Richard Florida has posited the emergence of a "winner take all urbanism" that tends to favor the richest cities, such as New York and San Francisco.

by Joel Kotkin and Michael Shires

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