Southern Growth Policies Board

“Ask the Experts,” features a rotating panel of experts from around the region offering their views on an important economic development question. This month, we posed the following question:

Given the context of the Driving the Next 20 conference, and/or your professional perspective in the automotive industry, what can states do to promote the automotive industry (maximum of three)?

Click to see what our panel of experts had to say.

I have grown weary of the American business refrain: “We can’t find and keep good entry-level employees.” I’m frustrated enough to have started blogging about the issue at www.untappedhumancapital.com. Our business leaders must commit to reach out to and train the unemployed and underemployed. We’re missing out on a huge group of folks who could bring serious problem-solving skills into the workforce.

Read the entire commentary written by Bill Ivey, a Partner & Director of Business Development at TechKnowledge Birmingham.

We want your views on the current economic recovery. Please take our 12-question survey to record your views. Results will be anonymous and will be used to develop economic recovery policies in the South. Take the survey by clicking on http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/road2recovery.

Teaming Up For Success
Teaming Up for Success is a Blog written by Carla Ledbetter for the Washington Times. It features stories about people collaborating and working together to make good things happen. A recent entry, Southern Recipe for Community Success, features Southern Growth Policies Board's Community Forums. Read the article and learn more about how Southern Growth's forums help communities communicate and achieve success.

Follow Southern Growth on Twitter and LinkedIn
You can now keep up with Southern Growth and economic development issues relevant to the South through our Twitter page and LinkedIn group. On our Twitter page you’ll find updates on Southern Growth activities as well as pointers to new economic development reports, data and ideas. The LinkedIn Group allows our Southern Growth constituents to communicate with each other by posting their own events, reports, and ideas to the group profile. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/SGPB. Join the LinkedIn Group at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2507791&trk=hb_side_g.

The Road to Recovery: 2009-2010 Forum Materials and Guidelines Now Available
November 3 , 2009. Each year, Southern Growth Policies Board starts a conversation in the South on a particular issue related to economic development. We do this by holding community forums, or moderated discussions, in communities large and small across the region. In 2009, more than 2,300 Southerners participated in community forums, state policy dialogues and an online survey to share their thoughts and opinions on how communities could best take advantage of the economic opportunities associated with energy. Read more about this year's Community Forum topic of economic recovery and join us in organizing a forum in your community!

MS State Biofuels Conference
August 14-15, 2010

At the 2010 Mississippi State University Biofuels Conference, international and national researchers and experts from industry and academia will discuss their progress on the science and engineering fundamentals, and the challenges with each of these technologies associated with scale-up, regulatory compliance, negotiations with stakeholders, feedstock logistics, and fuel distribution. The invited speakers will discuss the state of the next generation of biofuels and progress toward commercialization. For more information...

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