Whether or not Cleveland is in the midst of an economic recovery or simply wallowing in the middle-ground of simple financial survival depends on what you’re reading, what numbers you’re looking at, and whether you can still afford that fifth of Kamchatka every week. It’s all about perspective.
We lean toward specious internet rankings for our information, partly because they’re easier to digest than spreadsheets of raw data, and partly because we got a D in Econ 101 in college.
The latest batch comes from Indeed.com, via HuffPo, and the news, at least topically, is refreshing: Cleveland ranks 7th nationally for job openings.
This article appears in Jun 8-14, 2011.
