Brookings has developed a really cool MetroMonitor that will track the recession and recovery (likely a year after the recession ends) across America's 100 largest metropolitan areas. Here are some of their findings to date: A few metropolitan areas are beginning to showing signs of economic recovery, although none has completely recovered . McAllen is the only metropolitan area that saw growth in both employment and output during the first quarter of 2009. Employment also rose in New Hav Continue reading ...