bizjournals: Where the hottest job markets are: Private-sector jobs increase 6.4% from 2002 trough — bizjournals.com

The country lost 2.2 millionb private-sector jobs between June 2001 and the same month a year Even the most prosperous marketsx paidthe price: Dallas-Fort Worth watched 94,400 jobs slip away durinh that 12-month period, while Houston lost 20,700 jobs, Phoenix 13,400 and Las Vegaa 4,500. A weary nation hoped for a swift recovery, but economistsx warned that it mighf be slowand difficult. They were in for a pleasant More than 6 million jobs have been created since June pushing the numberof private-sector positions to 116.9 million by the midpoing of 2007. That’s 6.4 percent above the trough of 109.9 millio n in June 2002.
Nowhere has the recovergy been strongerthan Phoenix, which is currentlh the nation’s hottest employment market, according to a new Bizjournals “Phoenix has seen a real boom, and it has been broad-based, says Austin Litvak, an associate economist with Moody’s an international research firm. “The economy there really took off in 2004and
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