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One Atlanta: Economic Mobility, Recovery And Resiliency Plan Launched

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Read: One Atlanta: Economic Mobility, Recovery And Resiliency Plan Launched at BusinessFacilities.com. The mayor, in partnership with Invest Atlanta and WorkSource Atlanta, created the initiative to help Atlanta families and hometown businesses survive the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Rethinking Workforce Development

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Employers have always needed appropriately trained workers to maintain and grow their businesses. Employer-based incumbent worker training, vocational colleges, and state offices of workforce development are successful initiatives that were launched over the last century. Skills mismatch hinders employment.

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Global Railcar Firm Growing Indiana Operations Into Midwest Maintenance Hub

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GATX currently employs 35 in Indiana at its location in Terre Haute and its mobile maintenance unit in Crown Point. In addition, the expansion will allow GATX to complete more of its railcar maintenance in-house.

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FEATURE STORY: 2013 Economic Development Deal of the Year Awards

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Entered By: Georgia Department of Economic Development. The auto giant’s decision to put the $26-million center in Roswell has earned the Georgia Department of Economic Development our Economic Development Deal of the Year Bronze Award. “I Deal said the Innovation Center is “is exactly the kind of employer we want in the state.”

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SK Siltron Investing $302M In Michigan Semiconductor Wafer Plant

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The company, a subsidiary of South Korea’s SK Siltron, considered sites in Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas but ultimately chose Michigan due to its talent and proximity to automakers. million Michigan Business Development Program performance-based grant.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – Metro And Global Rankings

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The rapid and widespread adoption of mobile and social technologies within the last three years has changed the way customers and companies interact with one another—driving fundamental transformations to business processes and applications. AIRBUS: POWERFUL ENGINE FOR GROWTH IN MOBILE REGION. But Huntsville, our no.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – State Rankings

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We wish we could tell you that most locations are mobilizing to fix the nation’s crumbling roads, bridges and dams; unfortunately, the opposite seems to be true: the United States received an overall grade of D+ in the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) annual assessment, our starting point for BF’s evaluation.