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Brookings Study Paints Grim Picture of Indiana’s Workforce Investment FocusWe are focusing our workforce spending towards yesterday’s jobs and doing little to prepare workers for the skills needed to enter the careers of the future.

Understanding Job Numbers in 2018An announcement of new jobs reflects only one small part of the total job creation and destruction that occurs in an economy.

Thinking About Economic Growth Like an EconomistEconomists and businesses think about community growth in very different ways.

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November 11, 2018	Some Real Lessons of Veteran’s DayI think myself lucky to have been a soldier of this nation.
May 24, 2015	A Lesson from Guadalcanal on Memorial DayThe things that divide us matter less than those things that unite us.
August 3, 2014	A Century After the Great WarWWI triggered dramatic change that we can still feel today around the world.
May 25, 2014	The VA and Broken PromisesA promise of nearly infinite health care to any large group of people will have a nearly infinite cost.
April 30, 2012	The Hunger Games and FreedomWhat has kept me in a three-week state of shock is the message on values our kids are getting from this work.
July 5, 2010	4th of July OptimismIn truly free societies, it is the dogged optimism of small scale economic actors that propels growth.

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