7. Cincinnati

Cincinnati (Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor) is America's seventh best city for job growth, according to Arizona State University's W. P. Carey School of Business. Employment grew at an annual rate of 2.82 percent, or 27,900 new jobs, from July 2011 to July 2012, to a total of 1,017,500 non-farm jobs.

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