Despite its well-publisized problems, California still leads the nation in something called “wealth centers,” with 104 cities of 420 measured showing up in the “Rating of America’s Wealth Centers,” according to bizjournals. bizjournals is an online media site featuring news about local business conditons from around the nation. It is a division of American City Business [...]
David Lyman, a principal planner with the City of Bakersfield Economic Development Department, sent over a new list of the Top 1oo Metro Areas in the country as measured by “small business vitality,” which is complied annually by BizJournals. It basically answers the question, “Where’s a good place to start a new business”? In answering [...]
Bakersfield is a pretty good place to do business. While we were not immune to the effects of the “great recession”, we’ve faired better than most. With the help of a number of people, I’ve compiled a summary of the economics-related ”lists” Bakersfield has appeared in over the last year, which I share with you today. [...]
Bakersfield’s poverty rate…lower than LA’s? Long Beach’s? That’s right. We’re also lower than Fresno’s and Stockton’s, indicating we are faring much better than most large cities in the state…and across America. So says the U.S. Census Bureau’s just-released “2008 American Community Survey” as reported in Los Angeles Business in a brief article by G. Scott Thomas [...]
