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Can the Bay Area climb the economic ranks again?

Phil Matier
Phil Matier
Episode • Jan 16 • 3m
San Francisco and the surrounding area saw a massive drop in the biggest of any large US metropolitan area in a key economic ranking, the Milken report.
Before the pandemic, San Francisco and San Jose were were regulars at the top of the Milken Institute's list of best performing regions based on factors like job and wage growth, economic opportunity and equality, housing affordability and other factors.
But the latest report from the non profit Institute ranks the San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco metropolitan area at 126th on the report that ranks 200 metro areas and 203 small cities across the US.
For more, KCBS Radio's news anchors Margie Shafer and Eric Thomas spoke with KCBS Insider Phil Matier.

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