The last two and half years there is been job growth in the Tri-Cities market according to the East Tennessee State University's Bureau of Business and Economic Research. According to a report put together by ETSU’s Steb Hipple, job growth was led by education and health services, followed by professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, construction, retail trade, manufacturing and other services. The Hipple report showed over 1200 jobs in been added in 2012 for the same period of 2011.(CS)