Look for the Lights
Uncategorized Greetings from Milan, Dublin, Seville. I’ve always taken a great deal of pleasure in sending out lots and lots of handwritten holiday cards, but that’s an especially heavier lift this year as we continue...
A Place I’ll Remember – December 2024
A Place I'll Remember Rutherford County, TN is all in on the Amazing Shake program developed by the Ron Clark Academy to cultivate interpersonal and professional communications skills early in students’ lives. Kids in grades 4-8 are...
Sitting down on the job
Workforce An observation from day-to-day life during my recent month in Ireland was the practice of supermarket cashiers sitting down on the job. Not as a special accommodation. A small thing, perhaps, but it sent me down a...
500 Links and Growing
Kate McEnroe On Demand The Workforce Participation Resource Catalogue has grown to over 500 links, and I’m adding more pretty much every week. Why wouldn’t I? Every week I come across examples of how economic developers across...
Just in Case
Redesign Your Data Economic developers who spend time working with their employers to solve staffing issues may have a new challenge in store. On average, estimates are that one in 20 people in the U.S. workforce are unauthorized...
A Place I’ll Remember – November 2024
A Place I'll Remember This month A Place I’ll Remember is a little different. Bray, Ireland is my base camp for month one of a three month European adventure. I can’t claim any expertise at all about the current state and the future of...
The 65-30-65 project
Uncategorized Like all of you, there is a whole lot to my world that doesn’t show up in these newsletters or on my LinkedIn posts. For several years, I’ve maintained a separate web site, newsletter and Instagram account...
Visualizing a Shared Reality
Redesign Your Data If you want everyone in your community on the same page, they have to have the same information, and data visualization can help you with that. Lets’ start with this chart from the Congressional Budget Office. It...