Regional Economic Development

describes the implications of sprawling patterns of development from the perspective of workforce development and articulates why funders who seek to help workers gain family-supporting skills and jobs should also consider becoming involved in the emerging movement calling for better decisions that would implement smarter growth policies and practices.

The cities need to work together in the future.

#1 Goal: • Significant investments in higher education, particularly in math, science and engineering. And while Ireland is attention-grabbing, it is not alone at the front of the new global economic competition. Similar strategies are in place in Singapore; Vancouver, British Columbia; Bangalore, India; and elsewhere. Arizona is competing on a world stage and against a lower-cost stage, at that.

The most telling one-liner to add-exponentially- to our baby boom was, “one in every four businesses [in the Greater Yellowstone Region] is owned by someone who first came to Montana as a tourist.”

"People want to take home a piece of the artist," Miller says. For organizations such as the Northwest Crafts Alliance, the task at hand is figuring how to get enough people to those shows who want to take home a piece of the artist — and leave enough money behind to keep the rest of the artist in business.

"These grants support innovative research to help communities create and sustain rural community vitality and prosperity," Johanns said. "The Bush Administration is committed to helping improve the economy and quality of life in all of rural America."

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"If I were the economic development czar for America today or if I were in charge of economic planning for Las Vegas and Nevada today, I would start by making a complete and total commitment to a clean energy future because I think you can create more jobs there than anywhere else." Bill Clinton

Downtown merchants are reaping steady increases in revenue as a result of Internet-based sales. E-commerce enables them to turn over their inventory much more quickly, allowing store owners to add more products and variety to sales floors.

Boomers exceed the next generation of workers by about 10 million and more than half of the new generation are techno-peasants who lack the education and skills needed to step into the positions being vacated.