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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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North Carolina, Colorado and Virginia topped the chart in BF’s flagship Economic Growth Potential ranking. North Carolina has been laying out the welcome mat for businesses in a diverse group of industries, offering a growing talent pool of young skilled workers, an attractive quality of life and targeted incentives.

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SPECIAL REPORT: The Carolinas Are Bringing The Business

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Manufacturing continues to be a real wealth and job creator across South Carolina,” said Hitt. May was also a good month for North Carolina—the month it was announced that Cape Fear Arsenal Inc. The project was made possible in part by a performance-based grant from the One North Carolina Fund of up to $490,000.

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Good Jobs Challenge Awards 32 Entities Grant Money

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EDA focuses on assisting innovations in workforce development. Part of the American Rescue Plan, the program through the U.S.

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Centers of Technology: The Future Is Now

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Locations are bringing higher ed resources and high-tech businesses together to plant the seeds for market-ready advanced technology at incubators and innovation institutes, and to create the STEM-savvy workforce that will fill these new jobs. Chicago is rising up in ranks to become the next big place for technology innovation.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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Baton Rouge, LA has had great success in executing its strategy of bringing together business and higher education in innovative public-private partnerships that spur initiatives in new high-growth sectors. The entrepreneurs found Hagerstown from the suburban Washington, DC area and as far away as South Carolina. Awesome Inc.

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2012 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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With a diverse and well-executed economic development strategy, a workforce training program that sets the standard for the nation and a full menu of innovative incentives, Louisiana is marching forward on a path to prosperity,” Rogers said. aerospace and defense industry directly employed 1.05 Deloitte estimates that the U.S.

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BUSINESS REPORT: Ontario Unveils Plans To Achieve An Energy Balance

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The government will seek to expand the Smart Grid Fund, which has created more than 600 jobs and supported 11 projects developing innovative technologies. We are building on Ontario’s position as a global leader in research and innovation and creating important tech sector jobs across the province,” said Premier Kathleen Wynne.

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