Oklahoma City Flourishes Despite Recession - Page 2
Oklahoma City: Making Lists and Headlines
#1 Large Metro to Launch a Small Business
- Best Place to Do Business
- Top Visitor’s Destination
- Defies Recession
- 2nd out of 100 for performance during recession
- Biggest Increase in Personal Income
- Low Unemployment Rates
- Top 10 Housing Markets in the Nation
- Top 20 percent for real GDP growth
- Fastest-growing large MSA in the US/per-capita
- 4th Most Undervalued Place to Live
- 4th City for Your Career
- 28 companies on America's Fastest Growing Companies List
- 4th for Designers and Artists
- 6th Best Place to Live
- 7th Best City for Economic Potential
- 8th Best Place to Find a Job
Stone Bluff Cellars - Haskell, Oklahoma/Photo courtesy Oklahoma Department of Tourism 4 Big Things Happening in OKC Right Now
- $777 Million citizen investment in MAPS 3
- $750 Million construction of Devon Tower
- Oklahoma Fall Foliage
- The Oklahoma City Thunder Kick Off Second Season
As with anything there remains room for improvement. Oklahoma ranks 37 out of 50 states for education. MAPS for Kids is $700 million program to address problems in Oklahoma City.
In addition, the state ranks low in a number of areas concerning women including 49th in the nation for number of women serving in the state legislature. At the other end of the spectrum, the state leads the nation in the number of women incarcerated. The newly-established Oklahoma Women's Coalition works daily to advance the potential and equity of Oklahoma women and girls. It also bears mention that two of Oklahoma's gubernatorial front-runners are women and Lt. Gov. Jari Askins (D) and Congressman Mary Fallin (R).
At risk of extending the vineyard metaphor beyond its poignancy, Oklahoma, which is one of the youngest states in the nation having just celebrated 100 years of statehood in 2007, is just like wine in that it just gets better with age.
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