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Economy focus at meeting of mayors
Bowling Green :: KY :: USA | 4 days ago
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The Daily News, rminor@bgdailynews.com /783-3249 Friday, November 20, 2009 12:02 PM CST Bowling Green’s Mayor Elaine Walker was among four mayors Thursday looking at the economy through the perspective of local governments. “Some of the key indicators...
Tags: local governments, Bowling Green, Michael Nutter, Deficit, Public finance, Macroeconomics, Recessions, Business Finance, Labor, Economic Policy Institute, Brookings Institution, Government spending, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, National fiscal policy response to the late 2000s recession, Politics
Flight delays rarer here
Chicago :: IL :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Washington, D.C.-based think tank's analysis of air travel found that the number of U.S. airline flights landing at least two hours late more than doubled in the past 20 years. Delays are concentrated in the nation's largest metropolitan areas. Although...
Tags: air travel, Brookings Institution, flights delays, airline delays, DIA, metropolitan area, think tank, U.S, released today
Report ranks city's economy 19th best
Baltimore :: MD :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility It might not seem like Honolulu's economy is rosier than most big U.S. cities, especially if you've lost your job or had problems meeting a mortgage payment. But Honolulu had the 19th best economic performance of the largest 100 U.S. cities during the...
Tags: Brookings Institution, metro area, Baltimore
UNLV, Brookings Institution announce partnership
Las Vegas :: NV :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility The University of Nevada, Las Vegas is announcing a partnership with the Washington-based Brookings Institution to study issues critical to western states such as growth, energy and economics. More News The Brookings Mountain West Initiative was announced...
Tags: Brookings Institution, Brookings Mountain West Initiative, University of Nevada, UNLV
Report urges more local input on borders
Detroit :: MI :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility Local Michigan and Canadian officials should be empowered to ease congestion caused by tighter U.S. border crossing restrictions, a report says. An examination of problems along the U.S.-Canadian border commissioned by the Washington think tank the Brookings...
Tags: U.S, Brookings Institution, brookings institute, borders crossing, Detroit Free Press, Detroit Regional Chamber, study suggesting
Phoenix, Tucson economies rate low
Denver :: CO :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility The study says both Arizona cities are in the "20 second-weakest" grouping of metro areas, based on four key indicators in the first quarter of 2009: changes in employment, unemployment, gross metropolitan product and housing prices. Brookings says the...
Tags: metro area, Seattle, Brookings Institution, metropolitan product, gross metropolitan
Tulsa, OKC resist recession
Houston :: TX :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Less severe job losses coupled with modest home price increases have helped the Oklahoma City and Tulsa metro areas withstand the recession much better than much of the nation. In fact, both metro areas were among the Top 10 strongest in economic performance...
Tags: Brookings Institution, metros area, economic performance, metropolitan area, Madison, U.S, Bay Area, unemployment rated, housing price, Houston
‘Job sprawl' threatens urban poor, study says
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Against the drumbeat of distressing reports about job loss in America comes a gloomy assessment Monday about a time when jobs were being created...The metro area comprising Philadelphia, Camden, N.J., and Wilmington, Del., ranked fifth-worst of the 98...
Morning commute is changing direction
Washington :: DC :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility The morning commute in most U.S. cities is turning itself around, as more jobs move away from the urban centers, a Brookings Institute report said. A study released Monday said that only 21 percent of the employees in the country's 98 largest work centers...
Tags: metro area, Brookings Institution, job located, institute report, job sprawling, area job
Ill-Wind Ike May Blow Some Good in Ohio
Power Loss, 8,000 Jobs Renews Need to Extend Solar Power ITCs OhioNewsBureau By John Michael Spinelli COLUMBUS, OHIO: Ohio got blown last Sunday when wind...
Tags: Ted Strickland, jobs, economy, solar, electric power, AEP, Brookings Institution, Greater Ohio, investment tax credits
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