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Are There Lessons From the Great Recession for the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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Jeff Benach, co-principal at Lexington Homes, in Chicago, says his team regularly examines financial scenarios to forecast what the numbers could look like if sales declined by 10%, 20%, and so on. There have been four “official” recessions since 1980, and Jeff Benach, co-principal at Lexington Homes , in Chicago, has endured them all.

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Industry Focus: Logistics – Going With The Flow

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Slow economic growth has kept the percentage low, but the supply chain sector has made great strides in productivity, asset utilization and inventory management in the past three years.” Labor Department forecasts that truck drivers will account for 43 percent of the growth in logistics jobs in the coming years. Spending in the U.S.

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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With such a large inventory of bridges and a sizeable backlog of repair needs, we looked to innovative solutions to address the problem,” said PennDOT Secretary Leslie S. Navagant Research forecasts that the global SGaaS market, estimated at $1.7 billion in 2014, will grow to $11 billion in 2023.

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