Arizona and West poised to beat national job numbers

Arizona and West poised to beat national job numbers, from the Business Journal of Phoenix, reports that while the national economy is expected to remain sluggish through the rest of the year with a projected 1.3 percent employment gain, projections for the West, including Arizona, are much stronger. Arizona is expected to see a 3.5 percent gain in wage and salary employment for the year, behind only Nevada which is expected to gain 4.3 percent. The information came from the latest Western Blue Chip Economic Forecast put out by the W.P. Carey School of Business at ASU. The Blue Chip Forecast also looks at 2008 with Arizona jobs expected to grow 3.4 percent. As long as we keep gaining population and jobs, our market will be fine.

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