Jessica Holmes, Author at C2ER: The Council for Community and Economic Research

States’ Environmental Investments Continue to Grow: State Economic Development Expenditures Database Update

September 13, 2022 | Jessica Holmes

Written by Jacob Stenstrom The State Economic Development Expenditures Database blog series begins today and marks the release of the updated database. Over the next several weeks, the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) will be releasing blogs that highlight important findings from the latest update. The database serves as the premier tool for […]

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Getting to Work[force]: State Business Incentive Database Summer 2022 Update

Incentives, Workforce

August 31, 2022 | Jessica Holmes

Workforce development has become a hallmark of community economic development, and the term encompasses the activities, policies, and programs that work to connect occupational skills and vocational training services with the economy’s actual need for workers. There are many strategies that states and regions employ to develop and maintain a skilled workforce, but the State […]

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Women in the Workforce: From a “She-Cession” to a “She-Covery”

Annual Conference

July 19, 2022 | Jessica Holmes

The COVID-19 Pandemic Recession differed from other post-World War II recessions, especially regarding who was most impacted. During the Great Recession, the unemployment rate for men rose more than women, yet this was the reverse during the COVID Recession with the unemployment rate for women being over two percentage points higher than that for men […]