The Great Lakes Region, equally referred to as the Midwest Region, is home to many cities that are the nation’s traditional industrial leaders. In most cases, however, the ‘glory days’ for those MSAs have receded into memory. Debate now swirls around how to reclaim the manufacturing jobs that have migrated outside the country to other lower-cost nations in Asia and elsewhere. Or how to carve out larger shares of new work from the thriving and growing knowledge-based sector. Or how to more fully benefit from technological advances in resource development such as Ohio is achieving through the use of hydraulic fracturing to extract fossil fuels. Based on the demographic and economic criteria outlined in the accompanying eight tables, Columbus is the sparkiest member of the seven cities in the Midwest. Pittsburgh appears most sluggish.
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