Metropolitian statistical areas: an outdated tool for recruiting | The Daily Gazette
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A business group in Texas is worried site selectors may no longer take notice. So, too, are the mayors of neighboring cities in Alabama.
Theirs are among the dozens of comments submitted to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget on a proposed change to the composition of metropolitan statistical areas that could result in more than 100 MSAs, as they’re called, losing that designation.
Five MSAs in New York could be affected, including the Glens Falls MSA, which comprises Warren and Washington counties. (The larger Albany-Schenectady-Troy MSA, which includes the core Capital Region counties, is not affected.)