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December 2011

The eleventh installment of the MetroMonitor series shows a slow recovery continuing in the third quarter for the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas. Metro areas continued to experience a very slow recovery of both employment and output. Unemployment rates, although lower than in the corresponding quarter in 2010 in most large metropolitan areas, remained very high. Housing markets began to improve, as most large metropolitan areas saw increases in house prices and declines in foreclosures during the quarter. Manufacturing job growth slowed and government job losses accelerated. The financial sector struggled with job growth while wage growth in financial industries was mixed across metropolitan areas.

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Metro Monitor’s interactive maps illustrate the economic climate of the nation’s largest 100 metropolitan areas. Each map displays metropolitan data for a particular metric, with areas classified by quintiles.

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