This month we continue to look at some key metrics that create a snapshot of the regional economy.
  We add a few barometers each month, so that we end up with a pretty comprehensive picture of what’s happening in the region by year’s end.
  In January, we started with the basics, population, square miles, median household income and unemployment rate. This month, we’re removing media household income (it’s an annual number) and updating the unemployment numbers (every South Jersey county was up…the state was up…and the country was flat).

  Since we like to bring together panels of experts in their fields, we asked a half dozen of the region’s top IT and Communications gurus to share their thinking on a couple of subjects that we’ve been pondering.
  Specifically, we asked these two questions....