The Boom Towns and Ghost Towns of the New Economy - Richard Florida - The Atlantic
Number of Venture-Capital Deals, 2012
Job-Growth Change, 2009–13
Booming Or Busting: Cities And Regions After The Recession | On Point with Tom Ashbrook
One need to be careful interpreting such data... for example if some value was already high,
even without "change" it may still be higher that some other region that started low and has big change.