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State Job Creation Strategies for 2011

PSN on July 13, 2010 - 1:10pm

The fundamental challenge in this recession is that the growth that preceded it was a mirage. Bubble era borrowing created a network of financial jobs, real estate jobs and construction jobs that collapsed with the end of the bubble. Many of those jobs will never return.

An extremely high proportion (75%) of job losses in this recession are permanent rather than temporary. States will need to nurture completely new industry sectors and the infrastructure to support those jobs, while the jobless will need retraining in new skills to participate in those sectors.

State Job Creation Strategies Part II: Supporting Innovation, Industrial Clusters and Green Job Creation

Nathan Newman on January 25, 2010 - 3:22pm

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. 

State Job Creation Strategies Part I: Finding the Money and Investing in Human Capital and Physical Infrastructure

Nathan Newman on January 19, 2010 - 1:59pm
As this Dispatch will highlight, the first step is to fund jobs that support long-term economic competitiveness, notably by investing in people and physical infrastructure.  While the economic climate for profit-making business opportunities is more limited, investments in education, health care, transit and energy efficiency can create immediate jobs while strengthening building blocks for long-term growth.

Taking Action on Job Creation: Invest Michigan! Fund

PSN on November 21, 2008 - 3:10pm
In the past few years states have become increasingly unwillingly torely on the chance that volatile global investment markets will chooseto invest in their local communities. Instead, states are choosing todirectly invest themselves in local emerging opportunities.  The greatadvantage of direct investment, instead of simply raiding the statetreasury and giving away corporate welfare, is that by making directinvestment in local businesses, states create a financial stake infirms.  If these businesses are successful, they will return equity tothe tax payers that can be reinvested in other projects.  According to the National Association of Seed and Venture Fund, as of 2006, all but six states had state venture capital funds.

Overview

PSN on July 1, 2008 - 3:16pm

States are increasinglyunwilling to rely on volatileglobal investment markets to spot local opportunities for growing newbusinesses, but instead are acting to directly invest themselves in technologyopportunities. As of2006, all but six states had state venture capital funds, putting $5.8 billionannually into in-state business ventures, accordingto the National Association Seed and Venture Funds (NASVF).

The great advantage ofsuch direct investment is that,instead of just raiding the state treasury to give away corporate welfare,states can use such venture funds to create a financial stake infirms. If these businesses are successful, they will return equity to thetaxpayers that can then be reinvested in additional firms. Such investmentsalso can cement those firms in a web of local relationships that encouragebroader spin-off effects for the local economy.

Economic Strategies for Nurturing Innovation and Job Growth

Nathan Newman on November 5, 2007 - 9:41am
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.