Tulsa, Okla., ranks among one of the top metropolitan areas in the nation for construction job growth this year. According to TulsaWorld, this is largely in thanks to a budding oil and gas industry, as well as the rise of health care and hospitality throughout the area.
"An area like Oklahoma benefits because of the strength of the energy sector," Ken Simonson, chief economist with Associated General Contractors of America, told the news source. "Oklahoma never had a construction buildup, so the state only saw about half the decline the rest of the country did.
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