Strengthening Brand America

By Jami Miedema Earlier this month, I was made aware of a beneficial website for economic development professionals – Strengthening Brand America. This educational site, created by The Burghard Group, aims to help economic development organizations leverage...

Census

By Jeff Vedders www.census.gov: Such a simple web site address for tons of information.  Although this site has enough information for several newsletter columns, I’d like to share two areas of interest, the Census 2000 data and the Economic Census. Census 2000 The...

Industry Output & Employment Projections

By Jeff Vedders Here’s a link to an interesting article from the November issue of the Monthly Labor Review which is published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.  The article is about U.S. industry output and employment projections to 2010. ...

The List of Lists

By Jeff Vedders Check out the List of Lists at www.specialissues.com/lol.  This is a free listing of various lists published by specialissues.com.  This site is useful if you are looking for a quick listing of top companies for a particular industry.  The lists are...