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Reducing Military Spending to Spur Economic Growth at Home
Mar 11, 2010
The Senate struggled to approve a $15 billion jobs bill and has yet to enact additional fiscal relief for the states, but lawmakers continue to approve trillions of dollars for wars and defense appropriations. In fact, ignoring the almost $1 trillion spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, military spending has grown 41 percent since 1998. If progressive leaders intend to reduce long-term deficits and ensure a robust economic recovery, cutting inefficient and costly areas of the defense budget should be a top priority. -
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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Making Broadband a Key Part of States' Economic Recovery
Mar 16, 2009
This Dispatch will outline how funds allocated in the ARRA aim to support broadband initiatives and how states can leverage broadband to create efficiencies, increase opportunities and begin to bridge a major resource divide in our country by implementing progressive broadband initiatives. -
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.