Regional Economic Development

Rural People, Rural Policy, a multi-year national initiative, is based on the premise that rural America has abundant assets and that the brightest potential for rural America emerges when a critical mass of rural people are stronger, more organized policy actors. Rural People, Rural Policy builds and strengthens skilled networks and organizations to advocate and act in the rural policy arena.

When that cheap energy is gone, the assumptions and the principles of planning are going to be turned on their ear.

In this paper, we explore whether broadband investment by municipalities has an
effect on economic growth.

Grants are designed to support a variety of activities related to heritage tourism and innovative approaches to the use of historic properties as educational and economic assets.

The conversation will highlight several national issues including: legislative efforts to improve job quality, state and local policies that address skill shortages and declining wages and value-added activities that upgrade low-skill occupations to middle class jobs. A radical step-change is necessary.

The Conference, intended to bring cluster practitioners and academics from around the world together to share best practices and discuss ways to spur economic development through innovative cluster strategies, will take place October 8-12th, 2007.

Because of…complaints, transportation officials said they will take another look at their guidelines for what constitutes a ‘community.’"

For those who live in cohousing, home is where the community is

Although state efforts reach back to the 1950s, the technology-based economic
development field still relies heavily on oral tradition to convey what has been
learned, and as one former official put it, “I am not aware of any formal
training/academic programs for the directors and associates … except for on the job
learning.” This resource guide serves as a starting point in transferring the collective
knowledge of the field to a written form that will be useful not only to those new to
the field, but also to those with more experience.

Proposals in the areas of education, health care, social insurance, science and technology, tax policy, energy, and saving policy are particularly welcome.