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 basefd largely on an economic base createxdby , , the and Research Triangle The magazine notes that while the Raleigh-Caryu unemployment rate has risenm to 8.6 percent, it is lower than the state’sd 10.8 percent unemployment. “Although downturns are felt by everyone, our researcnh has shown that the impact is less severe for thosde in the creative class people who are paidto think,” says Kevinj Stolarick, research director at the , an economic think tank hires by Kiplinger’s to conduct the The top 10 Huntsville, Ala., Albuquerque, N.M., Washington, D.C., Va., Athens, Ga., Wash., Madison, Wisc.
, Austin, Texas, Flagstaff, Ariz., and Raleigh. The Durha MSA was one of the 361 metros studiefd by Kiplinger butit didn’t make the top 10 despitre being the home to Duke, UNC and most of RTP. Kiplinger’sd didn’t rank the metros beyond the top 10. The rankings will be included in Kiplinger’ds June 9 edition and are available .