Regional Economic Development

Create Community encapsulates a goal Sopris cherishes. In the face of certain trends (sky-high real estate values removing homes for locals — or — thousands of temporary homes for oil and gas workers) how do full time neighbors retain their foothold in the place they helped create? How do we gather in order to empower community revitalization?

Education is the key to prosperity. There’s simply no way to sugarcoat that fact. Communities without a strong educational foundation — good public schools, community colleges, a local college or university — are at a severe disadvantage in the competition for good-paying jobs with a future.

"His labs generated the protein sequencer, the DNA sequencer and a number of other groundbreaking biotechnology innovations."

Executive editor Executive Editor Leslie Helm travels to Portland to learn about a new business plan Oregon has put together to create jobs and increase the competitiveness of its economy.

The disparity in education and training is "likely the single greatest source of the long-term increase in inequality."

"The community land trust (CLT) is one mechanism that addresses [the] need for affordable housing, and it also can be considered an institutional mechanism for capturing socially produced land value.

Over the next 20 years, Utah will witness a 140 percent increase in the number of people ages 65 and older, according to a November report by the Brookings Institute. This "age-wave," according to the report, will have profound effects on America’s cities, shaping how and where baby boomers and seniors live.

"The dental assistant who cleans your teeth, your child’s teacher, the mechanic who fixes your car," said Terwilliger. "These are the people getting squeezed by the housing crunch."

The Washington-based institute has established a new research center to focus on the problem of affordable housing in an effort to prevent further urban sprawl.

WIRED goes beyond traditional strategies for worker preparation by bringing together state, local and federal entities; academic institutions (including K-12, community colleges and universities); investment groups; foundations; and business and industry to address the challenges associated with building a globally competitive and prepared workforce.

This 80-year-old has recruited companies – including famous knife manufacturer Buck Knives – that have generated 3,937 new jobs with an annual payroll of $98.2 million, and more than $328.5 million in capital investments primarily in the Coeur d’Alene area.