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Deepwater Horizon: Three Years Later

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billion fund to compensate seafood industry businesses damaged by the spill). Departments of the Interior, Commerce, Agriculture, and Homeland Security as well as the Secretary of the Army and the Administrator of the U.S. billion has already been paid out (the overall settlement includes a guaranteed $2.3-billion

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FEATURE STORY: Workforce Development Programs – The Recipe For Success

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The program is especially beneficial to the unemployed since they are able to maintain their unemployment compensation (UC) benefits during the eight-week trial employment period. GEORGIA’S QUICK START. Georgia is home to one of the top-ranked workforce development programs in the country.

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Seven Projects Land Deal of the Year Honorable Mentions

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KP employs 300 physicians and associates in Georgia. Georgia emerged as the winner of the big prize, a project that will create 900 new jobs over five years. Georgia has become a hotbed for global brands such as Kaiser Permanente to locate innovation and IT centers. Georgia’s economic development team provided a $1.2

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State by State Incentives Guide

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The Participating Lender sets all the terms and conditions of the loan (including premium levels, maturity dates, fixed or variable interest rates, secured or unsecured, amortization schedule, etc.) The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association tracks the weekly average municipal interest rate from 2000 to current.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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FOREIGN TRADE ZONES (FTZs): Secured areas legally outside of U.S. The company’s obligation to repay the loan is secured by a direct-pay Letter of Credit from a bank rated ‘A’ or better. corporations whose sole activities in CT are trading stocks, securities or commodities of their own account.

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