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Skilled Labor Fund to Educate 1,400 New Skilled Laborers After Grant from The Home Depot Foundation & NAHB

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If we’re going to make a difference and reverse this trend, it’ll take a united industry all coming together to solve this problem, and ensure the next generation of skilled workers is on its way -- ready and able to do the important jobs that keep our world moving forward. said Ed Brady, CEO of the Home Builders Institute.

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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4 in Best Business Climate, Texas—all have been perennial contenders for BF’s top honor, the State of the Year Award: Texas and Tennessee each have won the award three times since it was created in 2007; Virginia was the 2018 SOTY; Alabama won BF’s top award in 2017. “An The center will ultimately employ up to 2,000 associates.

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Centers of Technology: The Future Is Now

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From the September / October 2017 Issue. P redictions about the speed of technological advances usually invoke a formula known in the semiconductor industry as “Moore’s law,” first postulated in 1965 by Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel. By Jenny Vickers. Photo: shutterstock.com).

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BUSINESS REPORT: Maryland — SSA’s New Data Hub Moves Forward In Urbana

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Targeted Industries: IT, Hospitality & Rec., GDP (All Industry 2011): $301.1 Wildcat Point is expected to become operational in 2017 and generate approximately 1,000 megawatts of power, enough to serve 390,000 homes annually. The company filed for a Chapter 11 reorganization of its debts in U.S. billion*.

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Cover Story: Global Biotech Report

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It may be a tad too early to say the good times are back in the biotech industry, but things certainly are “hotting up,” as they like to say in Great Britain—and, fittingly, the UK is at the forefront of this resurgent growth sector. Manchester has a proven track record in establishing partnerships between industry, academia and NHS.

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STATE FOCUS: Florida – Let The Sun Shine

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These incentives will make Florida more competitive in attracting manufacturing companies and expanding the industry in the state. The state will cross the trillion dollar threshold for nominal GSP in 2017. Florida’s economy, as measured by GSP, will have grown tenfold in size from 1980 to 2017.”. Florida ranks 3rd in the U.S.

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COVER STORY: Global Biotech Report

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A retreat in the public markets in 2011 resulted in overall financing levels that are back to those seen in 2008, reflecting the continuing struggles of the Eurozone countries over the sovereign debt of some member countries. However, the region also excels in manufacturing industries, and it is Germany’s logistics gateway to the world.

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