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Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT
During a recent visit to Milwaukee, John Austin explored the economic revitalization of the Great Lakes region. Austin writes that these efforts have been given a major boost by President Obama, signing a bill that provided $475 million in Great Lakes cleanup dollars, a down-payment on a long term multi-billion dollar federal-state-local plan to clean water and reboot municipal waste systems. The empirical data shows that the clean up is creating jobs and is an economic engine throughout the Great Lakes region.
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Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The economic recession and contraction in the auto and manufacturing industries have had a significant impact on air travel trends in the Great Lakes region’s metropolitan areas, according to Robert Puentes, Adie Tomer and John Austin. The fall-off in air travel in the last ten years has been precipitous in the region, but a return to economic growth will challenge the most connected metropolitan areas.
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Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The bi-national Great Lakes region can continue to model what economic regions will look like in the global economy—and also how they can thrive.
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Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT
An analysis of projected property value increases created by the implementation of the federal-state Great Lakes Regional Collaboration (GLRC) Restoration Strategy shows estimated total benefits for the region’s metropolitan areas on the order of $16.1 billion to $26.5 billion.
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Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The federal government should be an active partner in Southeast Michigan's recovery towards economic transformation.
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Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT
John Austin provided Great Lakes regional economic context for a forum of Ohio and Pennsylvania business and civic leaders convened by Congressmen Jason Altmire (PA), and Tim Ryan (OH) to develop strategies for growing the bi-state regional economy.
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Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT
In this audio news conference presentation, Vital Center author John Austin discusses the importance of the benefits of restoring the Great Lakes ecosystem.
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Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT
For the past half century, the Great Lakes region has struggled to find its niche in a changing global economy. But the Great Lakes themselves can be a key asset in regional renewal.
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Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
In this presentation to a meeting of Canadian federal and provincial officials, Toronto area civic and academic leaders, and city officials, John Austin and Britany Affolter-Caine previewed the upcoming report on the bi-national Great Lakes regional economy and shared strategies for fueling economic growth across boundaries in the region.
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Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
In their Capitol Hill Briefing on the Great Lakes Economic Initiative, Bruce Katz and John Austin provide an overview of the initiative and present major findings from the framework paper.
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Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
America's Great Lakes region, once the core of the nation's industrial production and wealth creation, is losing ground rapidly. This 12-state region reaches from Buffalo and Pittsburgh in the east, to Minneapolis-St. Paul and St. Louis in the west. The competitiveness agenda of the next president should include an investment strategy that focuses on regional assets and institutions that steer the transition to the knowledge economy.
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Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Despite its long leadership in manufacturing and business, assets like major universities, and abundant natural amenities, the Great Lakes region's industrial legacy has left it struggling to develop the human capital, entrepreneurial culture, and dynamic metropolitan regions needed to compete in the global economy.