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Tech Jobs Are All Across America
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The Bay Area Council Economic Institute recently released a report that combines data from multiple sources, including the biennial U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and presents a county-by-county picture of how high-tech jobs are distributed throughout the United States.
The report shows that since the dot-com bust jobs in the high-tech sector have performed better than for the private sector as a whole. For example, the report says 61 percent of counties had at least some high-tech jobs in 2011. Metro areas with the fastest growing high-tech jobs are geographically and economically diverse, according to the report. In 2009, more than 72 percent of counties had at least one new business establishment in the high-tech industry.
Finally, the report notes that high-tech startups have held steady during the economic downturn, despite the fact that new businesses across the private sector have declined during the same period.
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