Don't Forget!
C2ER's Next Training Institute | September 13-17, 2010 | Arlington, VA

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Be sure to mark your calendars and join us on October 21st and 22nd for the C2ER Southeast Regional Conference at the Economic Development Coalition in Asheville, North Carolina.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) adopted a resolution in early August to limit the scope of the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS).  Calling the ACS “intrusive,” “a dangerous invasion of privacy,” and “overreaching and intimidating,” the RNC resolution seeks to end the ACS or at least making a voluntary survey.  The resolution refers specifically to a bill (H.R. 3131) introduced by Texas Republican Ted Poe in 2009 that would limit the Census Bureau’s information gathering authority to several key data points: name, contact information, date, and number of people at each specific address.  The bill has 34 co-sponsors.

In early August, President Obama made the statement that the U.S. manufacturing sector “has been hit hard for as long as folks can remember.”  The last time so few Americans worked in manufacturing was April 1941.  In the last 2-1/2 years, the U.S has lost 16 percent of its manufacturing payroll jobs.  Over the last 10 years, there has been a net loss of almost 6 million manufacturing jobs.