My heart sank as I read the article in the Wall Street Journal. My alma mater, the Macomb campus of Western Illinois University, was featured as an example of …
Workforce
The Power of Workforce Visualization
How can a community better plan for its workforce needs? Given the increasing complexity of our economy and the difficulty of obtaining reliable data, it can …
Nurturing Talent Through Apprenticeships
It is hard to overstate the importance of apprenticeship programs in today's economy, where numerous industries have identified a persistent "skills gap" in the …
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Economic Development Week 2022
This is Economic Development Week, an annual event created by the International Economic Development Council to increase awareness of local efforts to promote …
2021 Economic Highlights
Despite lingering concerns due to multiple variants of the coronavirus, supply chain issues, and fears that inflation might dampen the recovery, our region had …
