{"id":487,"date":"2015-01-31T21:01:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T21:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/?p=487"},"modified":"2015-01-31T21:01:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T21:01:39","slug":"forbes-orlando-is-13th-fastest-growing-city-in-u-s-local-economists-predict-job-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/31\/forbes-orlando-is-13th-fastest-growing-city-in-u-s-local-economists-predict-job-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes: Orlando is 13th fastest-growing city in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Local economists predict jobs expansion <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/800px-Tower_crane_close-up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-488\" src=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/800px-Tower_crane_close-up-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"800px-Tower_crane,_close-up\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a>According to Forbes&#8217; 2015 rankings, the City Beautiful is the 13th fastest-growing city in the nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Luxury transportation from Orlando Airport\" href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Orlando<\/a> is in the top 20 cities that expanded the fastest, and is the highest-ranked Florida city, along with West Palm Beach which is the only other Sunshine State entry on the list, coming in at No. 19. Forbes measured<!--more--> the top 100 most populous metropolitan statistical areas in the U.S. based on local population and economy, by using six metrics: population growth for 2014 and 2015, year-over-year job growth for the last year, gross metro product growth, federal unemployment data and median annual pay for college-educated workers in each area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Texas has five spots in this year&#8217;s top 10 rankings, the most of any other state: Houston, Austin and Dallas on the first three positions, followed by Fort Worth 8th and San Antonio 10th, due to strong population growth and unemployment levels under 5%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a Brookings Institution Economic Performance measurement, released only a week ago, from 2013 to 2014 Orlando increased its employment by 3.5 percent, which is above the national average of 1.2 percent. In addition, Orlando has a Gross Domestic Product increase of 0.1 percent in the same period. Nevertheless, Orlando is marked as having only &#8220;partially recovered from the recession\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite all this, some economic forecasts predict that the unemployment will continue to drop at recent rates; local economists say about 5 percent by the end of the year, which is considered normal. In terms of percentage of total jobs being added, Orlando is the fastest-growing metro area in the Sunshine State for jobs and keeps on developing major projects, attracting new companies and a great number of tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local economists predict jobs expansion According to Forbes&#8217; 2015 rankings, the City Beautiful is the 13th fastest-growing city in the nation. Orlando is in the top 20 cities that expanded the fastest, and is the highest-ranked Florida city, along with West Palm Beach which is the only other Sunshine State entry on the list, coming &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/31\/forbes-orlando-is-13th-fastest-growing-city-in-u-s-local-economists-predict-job-expansion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forbes: Orlando is 13th fastest-growing city in U.S.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}