1.0 link 120000 <![CDATA[America's Metros -- Winners... and Nonwinners]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-tepper-marlin/americas-metros---winners_b_120000.html Oil prices tripled since 2003. Sunshine for the economies of metro areas on the Gulf of Mexico. But a cloud over the metros on the Great Lakes. John McCain's solution in Detroit: more nuclear power plants. Barack Obama's: reducing energy consumption, creating green jobs. These issues aren't going away.

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The 25 metro areas with the fastest growth in incomes since 2003 are concentrated in the oil-and-gas-producing states like Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi, in the financial markets...

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