Yesterday, I braved DC's heat to attend a Capitol Hill briefing on an excellent new MForesight report, Ensuring American Manufacturing Leadership through Next-Generation Supply Chains. The report is well done,
19-07-2017
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I'm a member of my local workforce development board, the Alexandria-Arlington Regional Workforce Council. I'm biased, but I think we do a pretty good job. We've recently "upped our
18-07-2017
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I'll be hitting the road to do a few training programs over the next couple of months. Here's where you can find me: July 27-Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina
12-07-2017
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The latest issue of our quarterly e-newsletter, EntreWorks Insights, is now available. This issue offers suggestions for how workforce developers could do more to support local entrepreneurs and promote economic
06-07-2017
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I keep waiting for the big data revolution to hit us in the world of economic development. While the wait continues, I've recently been seeing some cool and intriguing uses
29-06-2017
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If you follow the current policy debates, it's been pretty tough to feel very optimistic about the future state of the US economy. Inequality is rising, robots are going to
26-06-2017
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A new assessment of the US's independent workforce--The State of Independence in America 2017 from MBO Partners--was released this week. This is a very useful annual survey that is worth a
15-06-2017
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The data on the benefits of employee-owned companies is very compelling. For example, a recent Rutgers University study found that employee-owned firms have higher productivity rates and generally outperform similar
05-06-2017
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Thanks to the excellent website and newsfeed, The Daily Yonder, I recently got acquainted with an equally excellent research paper, "The Economic Status of Rural America in the Trump Era,"
23-05-2017
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