Incomes for educated workers are growing fastest in these metros.
The metro suffers from 9.5% jobless, declining high-school graduation rates and not enough infrastructures. But a closer look reveals an employment picture that, at least in one way, is improving. In the past four years, incomes for college graduates there have gradually grown more than any other major metropolitan area. Several factors, like increased border patrol activity requiring jobs in intelligence and other white-collar work, and recent expansions of both Fort Bliss, one of the country's largest military bases, and the local University of Texas campus, have boosted pay for educated Texans. Couple that with El Paso's relative protection from the worn out housing economy and it's easier to see why pay is inching up.
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