{"id":6240,"date":"2012-05-01T16:26:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T21:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=6240"},"modified":"2012-05-01T16:26:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T21:26:13","slug":"forbes-oklahoma-city-10th-best-big-city-for-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/05\/01\/forbes-oklahoma-city-10th-best-big-city-for-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes: Oklahoma City 10th Best Big City for Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6241\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/okaycity\/6962528191\/sizes\/z\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6241\" title=\"Oklahoma City\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/okc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/okc.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/okc-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/okc-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/okc-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/okc-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/okc-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/okc-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">OkayCityNate \/ Flickr<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>Oklahoma City ranked No. 10 in <em>Forbes<\/em>&#8216; Best Big Cities for Jobs ranking, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/joelkotkin\/2012\/05\/01\/the-best-cities-for-jobs-2\/\">a list<\/a> led by Austin, Houston, Fort Worth and other energy-rich economies in Texas.<\/p><p>OKC was No. 22 on the magazine&#8217;s list in 2011.<\/p><p>Overall, OKC had a 1.7 percent year-to-year employment growth, and ranked No. 48 among all cities on <em>Forbes&#8217;<\/em> 2012 list, which ranked growth and momentum of metropolitan areas based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.<\/p><p>Lawton fell to No. 274 on the magazine&#8217;s Best Small Cities List \u2014 it was No. 20 in 2011.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Budget constraints have also hurt military towns, which previously had been largely immune to the recession, Forbes reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma City ranked No. 10 in Forbes&#8216; Best Big Cities for Jobs ranking, a list led by Austin, Houston, Fort Worth and other energy-rich economies in Texas.OKC was No. 22 on the magazine&#8217;s list in 2011.Overall, OKC had a 1.7 percent year-to-year employment growth, and ranked No. 48 among all cities on Forbes&#8217; 2012 list, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":6241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,15],"tags":[331,364],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6247,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions\/6247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}