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HESPERIA, California
Population: 92,147
Unemployment: 8.7 percent
Top University: University of California, Riverside
Sometimes the biggest innovation local governments can do is cooperation. Hesperia and four neighboring desert cities (Adelanto, Apple Valley, Barstow and Victorville), still recovering from the recession, pooled their talents and resources to form Opportunity High Desert, which has been key to attracting new businesses such as Dick’s Sporting Goods and Dollar General. OPH has had an even better effect on local residents; Hesperia’s unemployment rate, which was more than 11 percent last year, is now under 9 percent.
