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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.

"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?

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 ...

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 ...

More than 20% of Americans were obese in 174 of the 188 U.S. metropolitan areas that Gallup and Healthways surveyed in 2010. In the most obese of these metro areas -- Evansville, Ind.-Ky. -- 37.8% of residents were obese, compared with 12.9% in ...

Well-being was highest in Boulder, Colo., and Lincoln, Neb., and lowest in Huntington-Ashland, W.Va.-Ky.-Ohio, across 188 U.S. metropolitan areas Gallup and Healthways surveyed in 2010. Residents of Washington, D.C., boasted the highest ...

City leaders across the U.S. face tight budgets, decreasing revenues, and unemployment challenges. But they also confront another looming problem: high obesity rates that are accompanied with astronomical healthcare costs. What can those leaders ...