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Provo-Orem, Utah, leads 190 U.S. metro areas in residents' perceptions that their city is improving as a place to live (76%). Residents of Binghamton, N.Y., are the least optimistic about their communities.

Boulder, Colo., had the lowest obesity rate in the U.S. (12.1%) across 190 metro areas surveyed in 2011. McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas, had the highest rate (38.8%). Obesity costs cities an estimated $80 billion a year in healthcare costs.

Fixing major economic problems and winning the global war for good jobs can only be accomplished one city at a time, says Gallup's chairman. Washington won't have the answers. All solutions are local.

The U.S. has no shortage of great ideas and innovations. What the country needs now are highly motivated entrepreneurs who can turn those ideas into great businesses, says Gallup's chairman.

Oklahoma City, Okla., had the highest score on Gallup's Job Creation Index among the 50 largest metro areas in the U.S. in 2011, followed by Pittsburgh, Pa., and several Southern metros. Providence, R.I., had the lowest score.

Six of the 11 metro areas where residents are most likely to have ever been diagnosed with depression are in the Appalachian region, according to well-being surveys conducted in 188 U.S. communities last year. Residents of these communities ...

"The coming world war is an all-out global war for good jobs," says Gallup's chairman. But what kind of leadership does such a war demand? And who will win it?

One year after Congress passed comprehensive healthcare reform into law, Gallup documents gaping disparities in coverage among metro areas nationwide. Nearly half of adults (46.1%) in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas, lacked health insurance in ...

Nearly 97% of Lincoln, Neb., residents were satisfied with the city as a place to live -- the highest proportion among 188 U.S. metropolitan areas Gallup and Healthways studied in 2010. It is likely no coincidence that Lincoln also currently ...