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Bay Area Job Watch
Today the California Employment Development Department (EDD) released job estimates for May 2016. Here are the highlights Bay Area Job Growth Slows but Continues to Outpace the State and Nation The region added 113,800 jobs …
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Can Europe innovate a way out of its “Lost Decade”?
Long before the words “Grexit” or “Brexit” entered the popular lexicon, the economic news out of Europe was difficult. Since the 2008–9 recession, Eurozone countries have been treading water, bobbing up and down in the …
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Invest in training to revitalize California manufacturing
Is it true? That we don’t make anything in the U.S. anymore? That all our production has moved to China? That manufacturing has left California and isn’t coming back? That it’s too expensive to manufacture …
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Bay Area Job Watch
Today the California Employment Development Department (EDD) released job estimates for April 2016. Here are the highlights Bay Area Job Growth Continues to Outpace the State and Nation The region added 126,500 jobs between April …
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Institute Insights, May 2016
BAY AREA JOB WATCH: ECONOMIC OPTIMISM WEAKENING? This month’s Bay Area Job Watch finds that while the pace of hiring has slowed slightly from the mid-summer highs of 2015,the region is still adding jobs at a …
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Preschool Confidential
Institute Chair Laura Tyson and Trustee Lenny Mendonca recently published a great piece on how essential high-quality early childhood education is to development as well as for economies. It reads in part: BERKELEY – High-quality …
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5 Maps that Show Why Cities Rule the World
Published April 18, 2016 by Parag Khanna Originally appearing in Tech Insider When the United Nations was founded in 1945, it had just 51 members; today it has nearly 200. By 2050 the UN could …
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Bay Area Job Watch
Today the California Employment Development Department (EDD) released job estimates for March 2016. Here are the highlights: Bay Area Job Growth Continues to Outpace the State and Nation The region added 129,000 jobs between …
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Oakland housing crisis is a deep hole, so it must start digging
(This piece by Dr. Micah Weinberg originally appeared on March 23, 2016 in the Oakland Tribune.) The communities of Oakland must start fighting alongside each other rather than against each other to address the housing …
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Bay Area Job Watch: Hot Economy Cooling Off?
Today the California Employment Development Department (EDD) released job estimates for February 2016. Here are the highlights: Bay Area Job Growth Continues to Outpace the State and Nation The region added 129,000 jobs between February …
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Bay Area Job Watch
Bay Area job growth continued strong in 2015 and the region has added more than 550,000 jobs since 2010. Regional job growth has been led by technology with strong gains in health care and hospitality, …
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Bay Area Job Watch
Last week the California Employment Development Department (EDD) released revised job estimates for 2015 along with new data for January 2016. Here are the highlights: The Bay Area Outpaced the State and Nation in Job …