'CREATIVE' JOBS: Columbia named as hub for "creative class"

COLUMBIA, 8/26/10  (Beat Byte) -- Columbia has joined an elite group of cities as a growing hub for so-called "creative class" jobs, Richard Florida, author of The Creative Class said in The Atlantic Monthly yesterday.

"College towns stand out," Florida explained, noting that with a projected 16.4% increase in creative class jobs, Columbia is number 8 out of 10, just above Durham, N.C.

 

Calling creative class jobs "higher-paying, higher-skill jobs for knowledge, professional, and creative workers," Florida writes that "more than 35 million people are currently employed in creative class work in fields like science, technology, and engineering; business, finance, and management; law, health care, and education; and arts, culture, media, and entertainment."

 

Also good news:  "Creative class employment has seen relatively low rates of unemployment during the course of the economic crisis." 

 

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