The annual Best Cities for Job Growth rankings has demographer Joel Kotkin channeling his inner John Mellencamp.
Bill McMeekin is director of content at BusinessClimate.com and director of content/business at Journal Communications Inc., where he oversees content development and direction for JCI's economic development and business publishing programs. JCI's work in that segment includes the statewide economic development publications for Kentucky, New Jersey, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming, as well as several regional economic development organizations across the country. He has more than 20 years’ experience in business publishing as a reporter, editor and publisher and he loves nothing more than keeping his ear to the ground and sharing ideas and opinions on trends in economic development.
The annual Best Cities for Job Growth rankings has demographer Joel Kotkin channeling his inner John Mellencamp.
A customer service center for Amazon.com, more engines for Toyota and more energy jobs for Houston lead this week’s job creation and site selection announcements:
The 2012 Fortune 500 list is out. California is No. 1 with 53 companies headquartered in the state, edging out Texas (52) and New York (50).
A new corporate headquarters for Kentucky, a major mining investment in Alabama and a significant aircraft expansion in Kansas lead the week’s investment and job creation announcements:
Economic development organizations sometimes have to perform a high-wire act in promoting their central business districts without ignoring – or worse, harming – other business districts in the community.
Plastics, furniture and automotive top the week’s expansion news, with investment and job creation announcements from Dow Chemical, Ashley Home Furniture and JTEKT.
An analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows more than 459,000 financial services jobs – at banks, insurance companies, stock brokerages and real estate firms among others – were lost from February 2008 to February 2012.
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