Over the past several months EMSI has partnered with the Alliance for Excellent Education in developing a model that measures the economic benefits of decreased high school dropout rates. The model was unveiled recently by the Alliance (see the press release here) and highlighted by The Detroit News as a way to help solve Detroit’s [...]

An article last week in Community College Times illustrates the important role that two-year colleges play in helping give regional economies a much-needed boost. By furnishing skilled workers in a timely fashion, community and technical colleges are “incredibly important economic engines,” according to Karen Elzey of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for a Competitive [...]

Hilda Solis, a Democratic representative from California and the Obama administration’s choice to be the new head of the Department of Labor, has a background as a community college trustee and a backer of investment into green collar jobs.
Solis entered public life in 1985 when she was elected to the board of trustees of Rio [...]

With more details coming out almost daily on the Obama administration’s proposed economic stimulus plan, the creation of green jobs has become a hot-button issue. But even before the need arose to jolt the economy out a major downturn, Tennessee was positioning itself to become a big-time player in the alternative energy industry. The state [...]

In the span of two years, Newton, Iowa, has reinvented itself after the loss of Maytag’s corporate and manufacturing headquarters.  As a result, it has received national attention and serves as a textbook example of how small and rural communities can survive even the most devastating job loss.
Watch the video here.
EMSI contributed to the project [...]

A recent article published in the Northern Colorado Business Report:
GREELEY – Aims Community College contributes $1 billion per year to the regional economy, according to a new report.
Idaho-based research firm Economic Modeling Specialists Inc. analyzed Aims’ impacts through local purchases including wages; spending of students who travel from outside of the region; and the increase [...]