March 26, 2010 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)

January payroll employment in "Sweet 16" metropolitan areas

Employees on nonfarm payrolls, percentage change from January 2009�January 2010, metropolitan areas with universities in the regional semifinals of the 2010 NCAA Basketball Tournament (1)
Metropolitan area	Percent change
Morgantown, WV	1.7
Lansing-East Lansing, MI	0.4
Ithaca, NY	-0.5
Waco, TX	-0.7
Lexington-Fayette, KY	-1.2
Syracuse, NY	-1.7
Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	-1.8
Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA	-3.0
Knoxville, TN	-3.2
Cincinnati-Middletown, OH	-3.3
Columbus, OH	-3.5
Indianapolis-Carmel, IN	-4.0
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	-4.5
Lafayette, IN	-5.0
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	-5.3
Footnotes: (1) Data not available for Manhattan, Kansas.

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