By Ronald J. Hansen | The Republic
Tucson should see about 1.7 percent job growth by year’s end, and wages could pick up as well, said George Hammond, director of the Economic and Business Research Center in the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona.
The region has done notably better in recent months and is now hurt less by government cutbacks in defense contracting and in higher education, he said.
“We’re seeing the strongest growth since before the Great Recession,” Hammond said in an interview before the Eller school’s annual economic forecast Wednesday.
