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Arizona employment increased by 1.9 percent year-over-year in March, advancing the state into the 8th position in the job creation rankings. Last year at this time, the Grand Canyon State ranked 36th.

Housing prices rose in the Phoenix market in March, signaling a shift in the mix of what is being sold, according to Michael Orr, author of the monthly resale real estate report from the W. P. Carey School of Business.

With inflation-adjusted gas prices as high as they’ve ever been, why aren’t we hearing more about pocketbook pain? Robert Mittelstaedt, dean of the W. P. Carey School of Business looked at the factors affecting gas prices and the ways we’ve responded.

The “2011 Metro-Phoenix Business Study: New Strategies for Success,” commissioned by SRP paints a community that fought hard to survive the recession, but is now cautiously optimistic about the future. All would like to return to pre-recession conditions, but the downturn has left its mark.

The Buffett Rule is expected to remain an issue through the November election. Sparked by billionaire Warren Buffett’s contention that he paid a lower percentage of his income in taxes than his secretary, the Buffett Rule would raise marginal tax rates on the very wealthy.

Arizona real estate is often described as driving the economy, but is that true? Economist Dennis Hoffman and real estate experts Mark Stapp and Michael Orr discuss the role real estate has played in the cyclical Phoenix economy.

A sharp surge in inventories helped U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grow by 3.0 percent in the final quarter of 2011, according to the latest figures from the U. S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Business schools are in the midst of rankings season and magazines like U.S. News & World Report have announced their most recent verdicts. At the W. P.

A fresh easel pad waited at each of four round tables when members of the Executive Advisory Board (EAB) broke into groups to discuss what students learn in the department’s Master of Science in Information Management (MSIM) program.

Senior Joshua McCoy can remember getting his first computer when he was seven or eight years old. Just logging on and browsing websites for cartoons fascinated him. Now, McCoy is graduating from the W. P. Carey School of Business with an undergraduate degree in Computer Information Systems.