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Convene this. I was actually down at their summit calorie florida and los angeles last month speaking about innovation in cities and giving some examples actually in San Franciscos something this thing he has done amazingly well that is resulted in transition to becoming one of the absolutely top model economies not only in the country but in the world. So, after they heard my pitch they asked if they told me was going on and asked if id be willing to can being with them and reach out to mayor lee and his team and they said they be light delighted to do this. Milken institute is apparent spast...

They delightfully focus on is innovation in cities. What that means to economies and what it means to our country, and we are really proud to be able to partner with the Milken Institute on this event here today. The bear was the counsel and our job was to sell this work with our cities and our entire region to support its economy and quality of life for everybody who lives and works in this great place we call home and were very very fortunate to have such great city that make up the bay area and here we are in San Francisco not only a leadingedge economy in the world but certainly one of the...

Possible companies. Also has a very high level Educational Team so Silicon Valley has double the us average of people with a masters degree or above with 21 percent. So 20 percent of the workforce is Oakland Valley has a masters degree or above. Also, representing the Southeast Raleigh carried also another perennial top performer. It has sought employment growth for the several years and also saw saw its job creation rate accelerate in the past year and over the past 12 months was fourth in the category in the country. Let me just briefly mention some of the small performing metros. As i said,...

House and publish ourselves about four or five years after that. The index is really an outcome based measure of economic performance. It is a look at traditional business cost warehousing costs were quality of life such as crime rates. We believe that both static measures are certainly important, but they dont cover the true dynamics and they can be very subjective. So, we believe communities that can create jobs and attract Human Capital are the best performance cities over the long haul. The goal to help businesses investors, Industry Associations Economic Development agencies, academics, P...

Past year and over the past 12 months was fourth in the category in the country. Let me just briefly mention some of the small performing metros. As i said, fargo was number one, very diverse economy for small metro. It has healthcare. It has financial services. And another thing, well see what happens given the declining oil prices in terms of the oil boom but overall, looking at the numbers, it truly was a remarkable performance by San Francisco and let me introduce the man who has been leading that effort. Am not one to typically stands up and tells us what great jobs mayors are doing but i...