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1OKC and Tulsa Score Well for Young Adults

March 15, 2010 – A new study by Portfolio.com ranks Tulsa and Oklahoma City among the nation's top 10 places for young adults. Oklahoma City is No. 6 and Tulsa is No. 8.
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2OK Commerce Unveils New Economic Development Site, Database

March 15, 2010 -- The Oklahoma Department of Commerce has launched a new website and building database to provide companies, site selection consultants and economic development professionals access to real estate and demographic information needed to make expansion or relocation decisions. The new site -- OKcommerce.gov/locateok – is powered by a geographic information system (GIS).
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3OK Ranks 13th in Job Growth Prospects

March 12, 2010 -- Online news site The Daily Beast has ranked Oklahoma 13th for job growth prospects.  The ranking took into account 2006-2016 employment projections from each state's labor department and updated them using national employment projections through 2018.

Rankings also weighed actual change in employment between 2006 and 2009 for each state and the current unemployment rates.  Oklahoma's current unemployment rate is 6.7%. 

Wyoming ranked #1 in the survey, while Michigan took the bottom spot. Also in the top five were Colorado, Louisiana, Texas, and New Hampshire.
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4Level 3 EON & Totah Communications Get Broadband Funds

March 11, 2010 --  Colorado-based Level 3 EON and Oklahoma-based Totah Communications have been awarded a combined $9,510,865 in federal Recovery Act funds for broadband Internet infrastructure improvements in south-central and southeast Kansas.
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5TCC Set to "Launch" Entrepreneurs

March 10, 2010 - On May 3, Tulsa Community College will kick off Launch - Your Entrepreneurial Journey, a program designed to accelerate the start-up process by walking people interested in the entrepreneurial journey through the steps required to build a company. 

In 16 weekly experiential business-building sessions, aspiring entrepreneurs will move through the development of a start-up to the core business model to the bootstrapping process.  Each session will be led by entrepreneurial thought leaders who will share their unique and often challenging experiences on the start-up process.  At the end of the 16-week program entrepreneurs will have an operating business and/or prototype ready to go to market.
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Recent Oklahoma Kudos

2010 Lowest Corporate Taxes

(Tax Foundation)
Oklahoma, #7

2009 Best Cities for Startups

(Fortune/CNNMoney.com)
Oklahoma City, #1 (Large Size Metros)
Tulsa, #19 (Medium Size Metros)

America's Best Housing Markets 2009

(Forbes)
Oklahoma City, #2
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