Economy
Jobs Have Grown Far More in Canadian Cities
To see where jobs have expanded the most, look outside the U.S.
“No jobs north of 38 degrees latitude,” Bloomberg contributor Conor Sen tweeted in June. He was commenting on a USA Today report from May which listed America’s best cities for job seekers—all of them below that northern tier. While that’s true for the continental United States, Canada’s metros have significantly outperformed their U.S. peers for the past decade and a half.
More Canadian metro areas have seen moderate to high levels of job growth in that period, even as the U.S. recovered from the Great Recession, according to my research. More U.S. metro regions, meanwhile, saw job loss over the period from 2001 to 2016.