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Post High School Education Important to Life Long Earnings
Many high school graduates and rising high school seniors are making plans that will impact their work-related opportunities when they graduate from college. While interest is certainly an important component of career choice, it should be balanced with job opportunities. … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Education, Uncategorized
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Can Virginia’s Local Governments Learn from Spain?
Spain’s economy is a wreck, or so we surmise from the dismal drum beat of news about the European Union. The country is in recession, unemployment is nearly 27% and central government staggers from crisis to crisis. Yet, somehow, Spanish … Continue reading
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Better Government through Better Metrics
Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones wants to tackle the city’s entrenched poverty, and he wants to do it by investing smartly in community revitalization efforts. The big question is, what works? Supporting job training might seem a logical way for the … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Government Reform
Tagged ibm, mayor dwight jones, metrics, richmond
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Cycling Championship to have Large Economic Impact
(This column first ran in the Richmond Times Dispatch.) Two years from this September, the Richmond region will take center stage for the entire world. That’s when the area will host the 2015 UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) World Road Cycling … Continue reading
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Tagged cycling, richmond uci, union cycliste internationale
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Slower Recovery due to Sequestration
The Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy released its fourteenth annual Virginia Economic Forecast last week . It was again authored by Dr. Christine Chmura and her team at Chmura Economics & Analytics of Richmond, the state’s leading private economic … Continue reading
Posted in Defense, Economy, Top Story
Tagged sequestration
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