Jobs are returning, and the Real Estate market is recovering, but Arizona’s economy still hasn’t bounced back with the force that has been expected in the post-recession years.
That sluggishness is even more evident in Tucson. George Hammond, director of the economic and business research center at the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management, is projecting just a 1 percent increase in jobs in Tucson in 2016, and population growth is expected to almost completely screech to a halt.
