Topics : Economic Development


  • Atlanta Considers Raising Development Fees
  • Small signs of life in metro Atlanta's real estate and construction industries have local governments asking whether they should charge developers more to build homes, commercial properties and offices.

  • Obama Offers Additional $30M to Drought-Stricken Farmers
  • President Barack Obama said the administration will provide an additional $30 million to aid farmers and ranchers who are dealing with the worst drought in 56 years.


  • Young Farmers Get Help from Montgomery County, Maryland
  • The New Farmer Pilot Project aims to help build small farms at a time when the county is struggling to preserve farming by training young farmers and placing them on privately owned land to grow sustainable crops and livestock for five years or more.

  • Apple Deal Shows Cut-throat Race for New Business among Cash-strapped States
  • Coming out of the recession, states are aggressively competing for new businesses. To do that, they’re offering generous tax incentive packages to companies promising jobs. But such tax incentives are facing criticism for promoting a race to the bottom among states.


  • Farm Bill’s Prospects May Improve During Recess
  • House Republican leaders are hoping that Members headed home for the district work period, particularly in drought-affected states, will hear from angry constituents all month, demanding that Congress do its job.



  • States Up the Ante in Bid to Lure Other States’ Bettors
  • Cash-hungry states have long tried to poach business from one another. Now many are stepping up their efforts to lure gamblers from their neighbors to their growing ranks of slot machines, leaving states like Delaware, which embraced gambling early, struggling to keep up in what has become a feverish one-armed-bandit arms race.

  • U.S. Cities Increasingly Segregated by Income
  • U.S. cities have become increasingly segregated by income since 1980, with the greatest divide in fast-growing Texas metropolitan areas, the Pew Research Center reported on Wednesday.
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  • Fed Rejects New Action on Economy
  • The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that the U.S. economy was slowing and unlikely to create nearly enough work this year for millions of jobless Americans, but Fed leaders declined to take any steps to boost growth.




Events & Webinars

  • High-Performance Government - Building "Better, Faster, Cheaper"
  • June 20, 2013
  • Nationally, six straight years of revenue declines have put enormous pressure on state and local governments, nevertheless, some are thriving. Standard & Poor's, the credit-rating agency, reports that it issued more bond upgrades than downgrades in 2012.

  • Health Care Reform is Here: Are You Ready for the Rush?
  • June 27, 2013
  • The Medicaid expansion and the Affordable Care Act are in full swing. With the influx of people who will be applying for benefits and the ACA requirement for online enrollment, it is more important than ever to verify the identities of those accessing benefits up front.



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