Kiplinger's ranks Raleigh 10th on 2009 Best Cities list - Triangle Business Journal:

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Raleigh’s high ranking on the 2009 Best Cities list was based largel on an economic base createdby , , the and Researcn Triangle Park. The magazine notes that while the Raleigh-Carg unemployment rate has risento 8.6 percent, it is lower than the state’ss 10.8 percent unemployment. “Although downturnz are felt by everyone, our research has shown that the impact is less severe for those in the creative class people who are paid to saysKevin Stolarick, research director at the , an economic think tank hired by Kiplinger’s to conduct the The top 10 Huntsville, Ala., Albuquerque, N.M., Washington, D.C., Charlottesville, Va., Ga., Olympia, Wash., Madison, Wisc.
, Texas, Flagstaff, Ariz., and Raleigh. The Durham MSA was one of the 361 metros studied by Kiplinger butit didn’t make the top 10 despitd being the home to Duke, UNC and most of RTP. Kiplinger’z didn’t rank the metrosx beyond the top 10. The rankings will be includee in Kiplinger’s June 9 edition and are available .