The Brookings Institution: St. Louis is a 'Rising Star'

By the Brookings Institution and McPherson Publishing | March 10, 2022

As McPherson Publishing reports, St. Louis comes out looking pretty good in a new report from the Brookings Institution, which calls attention to St. Louis and other “rising stars” that have done a solid job in recent years of adding jobs in fast-growing technology sectors.

Employment data from 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, suggest St. Louis, Kansas City and a handful of other rising-star metros are poised for further progress, according to Brookings researchers Mark Muro and Yang You.

"Only one metro out of nine rising starts posted faster tech job growth in 2020 than in the five previous years. That metro was St. Louis."

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