No. 1 ranking in productivity helps keep Utah economy afloat

Since the recession struck, no city in the United States has had more productive workers than Salt Lake City. That’s one conclusion in the Metro Monitor, published quarterly by the Washington, DC.-based Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program. Salt Lake City finished first in the United States with an 8.3 percent growth rate for its gross metropolitan product (GMP) since its economy peaked in the fourth quarter of 2008. GMP measures the total value of goods and services produced. Salt Lake Tribune