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State Job Creation Strategies Part II: Supporting Innovation, Industrial Clusters and Green Job Creation
Jan 25, 2010
As we described last week in State Job Creation Strategies Part I: Finding the Money and Investing in Human Capital and Physical Infrastructure, competing globally for jobs starts with policy makers instituting fundamental investments in education, human capital and physical infrastructure that make their state a productive environment for economic innovation. The next step, as this Dispatch will describe, is helping the private sector leverage opportunities for job creation and technological innovation.
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State Action for the Unemployed
Mar 09, 2009
On Thursday, the official unemployment rate climbed to 8.1% nationwide as employers shed an additional 651,00 workers last month. Add in sharp rises in the number of involuntary part-time and long-time discouraged workers, and the unemployment rate rose to 14.8%. While long-term job growth is the goal of the recovery package, states need to, and some are already stepping up to, address the immediate needs of the unemployed. This Dispatch emphasizes key programs states can take advantage of to help their unemployed workers. -
Averting Layoffs and Revitalizing the Manufacturing Economy: Lessons from the Great Lakes States
May 05, 2008
As the country enters into a recession and suffers increasing job losses, the Great Lakes Region is facing a particularly acute crisis. Literally millions of decent-paying manufacturing jobs have disappeared from the region in recent years. How regional political leaders are responding to that crisis provides lessons for state policymakers across the country. -
Economic Strategies for Nurturing Innovation and Job Growth
Nov 05, 2007
In an increasingly global economy, states struggle over what policies can encourage the growth of high-value local jobs and high-technology industries that can compete.