Minneapolis is the largest city in Minnesota. The city is located on both banks of the Mississippi river. Saint Paul is right across from Minneapolis, hence the name “Twin Cities,” this makes it the 15th largest metropolis area in the US. The population of Minneapolis is 380,000 people roughly. The city is rich in water and has over 20 lakes and wetlands.

Minneapolis’s economy is based in finance, commerce, trucking and rail industries, and jobs in healthcare. This is a great place to live and work if you work in the business industry, trucking, or health care. Smaller industries in Minneapolis are; publishing, milling food processing, graphic arts, insurance, and high technology.

If you are looking for a labor jobs in Minneapolis some more industries are; metal and automotive products, chemical and agricultural products, electronics, computers, plastics and machinery.

If you are looking to work for a fortune 500 company, five are filling Minneapolis jobs. For more information on the five companies, check out Target, US Bank, Xcel Energy, Ameriprise and Thrivent.

Minneapolis also has a large art world, major league sports teams and much more. Whatever you are looking for you will find it in this large city.

Despite being named on of the best metro-areas for business by a recent MarketWatch report, Minneapolis job growth is not what it used to be. As the number of available Minneapolis jobs decrease, the unemployment rate is beginning to climb. September Statistics show that the city’s jobless rate has now surpassed the national average. As 4.9 percent of the city’s citizens struggled to find work, the national unemployment rate dropped to 4.7 percent.

Throughout the country, 4.3 percent more people have been able to find employment since 2003. In the same time period, Minnesota employment has only increased by 2.4 percent. Some analysts say that the issue is not lack of Minneapolis job creation, but that the highly educated population is over qualified for a vast majority of the positions being created.Other’s blame the lack of new Minneapolis jobs to be had on the housing market slump and uninspiring retail sales.

The housing slump has had particularly negative side effects on the mortgage industry. In an effort to increase profit, GMAC Financial Services recently announced that they will be restructuring it’s mortgage operations, Residential Capital LLC (ResCap). Blaming the severe weaknesses in the housing market, ResCap plans to streamline its operations and revise it’s cost structure.

This will result in layoffs for 25 percent of the company’s employees, approximately 3,000 individuals worldwide, some of which will take place in Minneapolis. The majority of these reductions in staff are expected to take place before the end of the year. All eligible associates effected by the layoff will receive severance packages along with outplacement assistance.

Aside from layoffs, many of the city’s industries are experiencing slower than average job growth and have been doing so for some time now. One sector not effected by trickling job creation is healthcare. According to State Economist Tom Stinson, this is the one area in which Minneapolis job creation is fairing better than the rest of the nation.

According to Todd Klingel, the chief executive of the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce, high city taxes maybe deterring other large businesses from coming to the area. This could easily be effecting the creation of new Minneapolis jobs.

In the state of Minnesota, the majority of residents live in the Twin Cities region of Minneapolis-St.Paul area. It is under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Council. Since their creation, these two metropolitan cities have competed for attention. Through the years, these two rivals have competed for a major league baseball sports teams and what resulted are two rival stadiums, one built in each city.

In the mid 1960s, the two rivals even failed to agree on which calendar to follow in respect to daylight savings time. Eventually, the cities opted on two different calendars and those in Minneapolis were one hour ahead of anyone in St. Paul for several weeks of the year. Yet what is more important as the rivalry and disputes is the sharing of pain and suffering each experience as a collective in 2007.

Looking back to as recent as August 31, 2007, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul Minnesota the employment outlook for Minneapolis jobs and future of international trade for the state was surprisingly healthy. However, two fatal blows as the calendar pages turned left this once thriving job market in despair. More than 60,000 jobs were available statewide before the devastating collapse of the I35W Bridge.

The bridge collapse and closure now adds an additional burden of increased cost and travel time for those forced to re-route to work and back on a dally basis throughout the work week. Closure of this main traffic vein is estimated to have affected at least 140,000 vehicles typically traveling this route. Adding burden and travel time to the working class Americans residing and working in the Twin Cities area. At the present, unless you opt to live within this downtown area, you should be prepared to sacrifice at least into the coming New Year or more.

Perhaps it is good that the state of Minnesota has always imported a disproportionate number of goods and raw materials as it will certainly be necessary to further rely on its waterways for transporting of basic needs for the moment. Moreover, just as transportation routes demonstrate, the situation is not expected to come to a close anytime in the near future or at least not for the coming year of 2008.