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re: Southern Economies at a glance
Posted on 4/19/14 at 8:30 am to PNW
Posted on 4/19/14 at 8:30 am to PNW
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Forbes has their actual data on their actual website
Oh you...
You mean this link? The Fastest-Growing Cities Since The Recession
But I also linked some other reports...
America's New Brainpower Cities
Top 10 Cities for College Graduates
But wait! There's more!
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Planning urged to prepare for La.’s chemical boom
TIMOTHY BOONE
tboone@theadvocate.com
With nearly $84 billion in petrochemical plant construction projects and thousands of workers in the pipeline for Louisiana over the next few years, officials say it is time to start planning how to handle the impending boom.
“We better get ready,” said Boo Thomas, president and CEO of the Center for Planning Excellence . “We have thousands of new workers coming. Where are they going to live? Where are they going to get their McDonald’s? Where are they going to get their healthy food?” she said during a panel discussion Wednesday at the 2013 Louisiana Smart Growth Summit in the Shaw Center for the Arts.
Dan Borné, president of the Louisiana Chemical Association, described it as one of the “great tsunamis of investment” to happen in U.S. history.
An ample supply of cheap natural gas has triggered the boom, with most of the activity centered between Baton Rouge and New Orleans and around Lake Charles.
Susana Schowen, a workforce initiatives manager for the Louisiana economic development department, said the state will need an estimated 130,000 workers by 2020 to build all of the new industrial projects on the horizon. It won’t be just craft workers such as welders and carpenters. Engineers, managers, accountants and support staff will also be needed, she said.
Chemical boom
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“Because of all we have done to make Louisiana a great place to do business, we have now set another record for the number of people working, exceeding 2 million workers for the first time in Louisiana history,” Gov. Bobby Jindal said in a statement.
“That’s even more significant when you consider that many announced major projects that will drive employment for years have not yet begun construction,” said Curt Eysink, executive director of the Louisiana Workforce Commission.
Employment hit a new peak for the sixth month in a row
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Posted on 4/19/14 at 8:40 am to TigersOfGeauxld
Recent College Grads are still drunks, so NOLA makes sense in that poll...
Posted on 4/19/14 at 8:56 am to TigersOfGeauxld
With all these plans for Louisiana, maybe next year they'll rank higher than 40th on Forbes list of best states to do business.
This post was edited on 4/19/14 at 8:57 am
Posted on 4/19/14 at 10:58 am to TigersOfGeauxld
Skippy, it's all about context. From your Forbes link:
Good news....in 2060, N.O. might be as big as it was in 1960.
The same holds true for N.O. Murder Rate
On the surface, folks trumpet the improvement....but look a little closer and you'll see:
N.O. has always been and will always be the armpit of the South.
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Since 2007 New Orleans’ population has grown 28% to 370,000. Many are newcomers who came, at least initially, to rebuild the city. But the city is still way below the 2002 population of 472,000, much less its high of 628,000 in 1960.
Good news....in 2060, N.O. might be as big as it was in 1960.
The same holds true for N.O. Murder Rate
On the surface, folks trumpet the improvement....but look a little closer and you'll see:
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The estimated 2013 rate of more than 40 killings for every 100,000 people remains more than eight times the national average.
New Orleans has for years jockeyed with other infamously bloody places for the highest per capita rate of killings, and it is unlikely to lose its spot among America’s most murderous cities. The city placed third in 2012, after Flint, Mich., and Detroit, both of which saw similar reductions in killings this year, according to local news accounts.
N.O. has always been and will always be the armpit of the South.
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