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Workforce Training: Engineering A Skilled Workforce

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Here’s the good news: most of the states (and the federal government) got the memo (Workforce Training is Job One) and they are moving aggressively to put in place innovative and highly effective workforce training programs that put forward-thinking businesses and higher education resources on the same team. VIRGINIA’S TRADITION OF TRAINING.

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Construction Cost Estimating Blog: CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM.

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The course provides participants from all aspects of the construction industry with training and continuing education units. Additional partners in the training program are the Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce, Miami Dade College Community Education and the Southern Florida Minority Supplier Development Council.

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Texas Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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This program is a matching grant program to assist eligible institutions of higher education in recruiting distinguished researchers. The state also permits a corporate deduction from the state’s franchise tax for renewable energy sources.

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FEATURE STORY: 2013 Economic Development Deal of the Year Awards

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The Arizona team worked closely with Maricopa County’s air-quality department to obtain the required permits for Apple. Mesa also processed the required permits expeditiously. GM is hiring software developers, project managers, database experts, business analysts and other IT professionals for the Innovation Center in Roswell.

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Open Borders

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Microsoft, always in need of a wave of new software engineers, views Canada’s more lenient immigration laws as a safer bet than the less-than-welcoming attitude now on the rise in the U.S. Microsoft Founder Bill Gates and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella both spoke about globalization and education at the conference.

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Washington Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Eligible entities include state public higher education institutions, local government facilities, state agencies and K-12 public school districts. Qualifying Activity: Purchases of computer hardware, software and computer peripherals and charges for labor and services related to the installation of such equipment.

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Lessons From the Hudson River PCB Cleanup Project | ENR.

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Earn Continuing Education Credits. Inside Scoop: Dredges are equipped with GPS software to help guide the buckets with surgical precision to their targets. The company had permits for most of its discharges. Work continues in the dredge zone around the clock, six days a week, during the work season from May through November.