A Place I’ll Remember – May 2025
A Place I'll Remember I’ve decided it’s enough to highlight ideas worth trying if problems are being newly addressed, but it’s also a pleasure to be able to share how those ideas are working out. Three years ago I highlighted New Mexico’s...
Look beyond the typical
Kate McEnroe On Demand It is rare for a day to go by that I don’t find somebody, somewhere doing something that I think more people should know about when it comes to addressing workforce issues. This article from Crain’s...
What’s in your donut?
Redesign Your Data What’s a “donut” in data visualization? It can be a version of a pie chart, but in this case I’m talking about the popular style of presenting a REALLY BIG NUMBER in a circle and then below or to the side...
A Place I’ll Remember – April 2025
A Place I'll Remember Incentives designed to attract remote workers aren’t really new anymore, but Evansville Indiana’s “e is for everyone” campaign website includes content that I love to see communities create, and that has legs well...
Download your Data: DOE Edition
Redesign Your Data Last month I shared a suggestion that economic developers consider downloading key raw data sets that are used regularly to market their areas and by others to evaluate their areas. This month, in view of publicity...
A Place I’ll Remember – March 2025
A Place I'll Remember This month I’m highlighting Michigan’s newly announced Employer Assisted Housing Fund. The program has been allocated $10 million to be granted on a matching basis to employers who are willing to devise...
A New Workforce Target?
Uncategorized You’ve targeted College Students You’ve targeted Remote Workers You’ve targeted Military Veterans Are you ready for your next workforce target market? Public sector and not for profit employees...
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Redesign Your Data It’s always good practice to back up your data sources, but it’s easy to forget about it now that we are so used to having open source and paid information stored for us online. For economic developers, whether you...