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Update: EMSI has produced a video tutorial to assist in the CBJTG application process. This brief screencast shows how grants writers can use EMSI’s data analysis to identify high-growth/high-demand industries and occupations in their region, find economic impacts of regional industries, and access occupational competencies.

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EMSI is also offering free program justification reports to EMSI clients and other interested education professionals. This report is designed to integrate and analyze data from multiple sources to help educational institutions discover regional labor market needs for certain postsecondary programs of study. The overall goal is to help a college align program offerings to the economy and labor market of its service region. To do this, the report selects a set of focus occupations, determines the regional job outlook for them, and compares this to the number of recent graduates in related programs at regional educational institutions.For more information, contact us at 866.999.3674.

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Over the years, I’ve come to view community colleges and other two-year institutions as the Cinderella story of our education system–doing the hard work, quietly, without much fanfare. They provide a pathway to the American dream for millions of people, whether they enter the workforce immediately afterward or decide to continue their education.

Read the full article here.

As always, users of EMSI’s Strategic Advantage can contact us for free customer support regarding the use of labor market information to discover high-growth industries and occupations in their area.

Link to press release, full report.

Read on for the full press release.

Delhi, NY June 25, 2008 – The Downeast Development Consulting Group of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia has been chosen to undertake an Economic Impact Study of New York City’s Watershed Land Acquisition Program for the Delaware County Department of Economic Development.

The Study involves developing an “Economic Impact Model” for Delaware County of the affect of NYC’s land acquisition plans on the County’s economy. The Catskill-Delaware Watershed system provides 1.3 billion gallons of water per day to New York City consumers and occupies over 50% of the County’s land base.

Local officials fear further land acquisition will suffocate the local economy, locking up the majority of developable land for watershed protection. The County hopes to use the results of the study to gain concessions when New York City goes before state agencies for the renewal of its permit for land acquisition programs in 2010.

Department Director Glenn Nealis said the Downeast Group had “the best economic development and modeling component” of the submitted proposals and “quite a bit of experience” in working with small communities. Other members of the consulting group include Economic Modeling Specialists Inc. (Moscow, Idaho), Ekistics Planning & Design (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia) and JPH Consulting (Auburn, Maine).

“We’ve assembled a very capable international team to undertake the study,” said Downeast President Greg Brown, who will lead the project, “and we suspect our analysis of the local economy will provide the evidence of the watershed’s negative effect on local business growth.”

Brown says that the project is the largest to-date for Downeast Group and stated, “We believe we can add real value to the County’s efforts on this issue and see it leading to further opportunities for the firm in the U.S. Northeast market.”

For further information contact:

Greg Brown, B.Comm., Ec.D.
President
Downeast Development
Consulting Group
75 Collins Grove, Suite 206
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
B2W 6B3

Tel:  1.902.483.0162
Fax: 1.902.454.8765
Email: gbrown@downeastgroup.ca
Web:   www.downeastgroup.ca

“This report details the significant contributions that SCCC has made to the vitality of our local economy and to the lives of our students. It is important that our county and state taxpayers, as well as our students, know that the investment they have made in SCCC for nearly 40 years, has resulted in long-term positive financial effects for them. The report was created by an independent national firm utilizing many sources of data relating to the College and its economic impact on the local area. We want to share this report with members of our community to let them actually see the return on their investment and that our students, faculty and staff continue to be essential contributors to the economic stability of the county,” said Gabe Basil, SCCC President.

Read the full story here.

Regions with the most state GDP growth in 2007 were:

• The Pacific Northwest & Rocky Mountain  (WA, OR, ID, + MT and UT)
• South Central (TX, OK, KS)
• Northern Plains (ND, SD, MN)

Low-growth regions included:

• The southern Far West (CA, NV, + AZ)
• The Great Lakes (WI, MI, IL, IN, OH)
• The Southeast (mixed — higher-growth states were NC, LA, KY, GA)
• The Northeast (except NY and DC)

(Note: these “regions” don’t necessarily match region boundaries or names used by the BEA.)

The slowdown was led by Construction and Finance & Insurance industries, consistent with the “credit crunch” widely discussed in the media in past months. CA, NV, AZ, and FL (all states that experienced a significant subprime-related housing bubble) experienced extreme deceleration in growth and in 2007 were in the mid to lower quintiles of all states.

The central policy recommendations of the report are

1. “Ensuring a skilled workforce” by improving K-16 education and beyond in math, science, and entrepreneurial thinking, as well as making it easier for skilled and educated immigrants to work in the US.
2. “Reforming health care” to reduce costs and risks for the self-employed and small businesses.
3. “Promoting innovation” by reforming the patent system, increasing commercialization of university research, and monitoring foreign R&D activity for new ideas.
4. “Limiting overly burdensome regulation and liability litigation,” which have a greater effect on entrepreneurial firms than on large established corporations.

Read the full report here.

• Organizing and Supporting the Employer Role in Workforce Development: A Guide for Employer Organizations
• Creating Community Advancement Initiatives: A “How To” Manual
• Building Employer-Responsive Workforce Systems at the State Level: A “How To” Manual
• Providing Business Services: A “How To” Manual
• Partnering with One-Stop Career Centers-Strategies for Recruiting and Training Employees

Download the PDFs from Workforce3one’s page (free reg. req’d), or at Jobs for the Future.

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