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Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT
A United Kingdom based organization Centre for Cities released a new interactive map that follows the downturn and recovery of the UK’s major urban areas over the last 20 months. Alan Berube identifies that what a U.K. metro area did before the downturn had a big impact on its performance during the downturn.
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Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Bruce Katz outlines the many metropolitan assets that could form the basis for the Seattle region’s economic recovery and evolution. However, Seattle won’t get there without renewed civic collaboration, smart government action and an overarching regional vision.
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Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:00:00 GMT
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- August 13, 2009, 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Six months after Congress passed a two-year, $787 billion stimulus plan to revive America’s economy, conflicting numbers fuel arguments of both proponents and critics. A panel of Brookings experts weighed the evidence and discussed whether the money was strategically deployed to invigorate the nation’s economy, to create jobs and to advance school reform.
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Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
A Bay Area economic development nonprofit selected among hundreds of proposals to craft a single ARRA implementation strategy that creates jobs in the short-term and lays the foundation for economic growth and competitiveness in the long-term.
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Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
To accelerate the arrival of regional high speed rail, a collaboration of Bay Area leaders proposes to use ARRA funds on the track and station upgrades that are both necessary for high speed rail but also enhance the safety, capacity, and performance of existing train operations. Brookings experts examine the proposals.
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Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
California is piloting a regionally-based, public-private partnership-driven, green jobs training program for at-risk youth that leverages ARRA funds with local resources to bring together new collaborations of employers, community colleges, and workforce organizations.
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Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
To modernize the communications infrastructure in Southeastern Massachusetts, a regional public-private partnership is pursuing ARRA funds to install hundreds of miles of fiber optic cable and create a shared, multi-purpose regional data center.
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Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
A regional nonprofit plans on using ARRA funds to boost its current retrofit and weatherization activities in the short-term while promoting greater regional cooperation and expanded services in the long-term.
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Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The city of Chicago is using ARRA funds to introduce a new program for retrofit delivery that relies on private sector financing and energy service companies to target property owners of lower-income multi-family homes.
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Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In this framing paper, Mark Muro, Sarah Rahman and Amy Liu highlight the work of some of the most creative recovery act implementers in metropolitan America, noting that their efforts to innovate come against the grain of federal “business-as-usual.”
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Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
A group of 40 struggling Chicago-area suburbs are utilizing a pre-existing multi-jurisdictional neighborhood stabilization strategy as a framework for linking multiple ARRA funding flows to support community development, energy efficiency and infrastructure upgrades.
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Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Flagstaff and Coconino County, AZ are working together on ways to reduce the communities’ high utility costs by using ARRA money to jump-start a drive to retrofit targeted households’ homes while drawing on newly trained local workers.
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Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
This comprehensive plan to address a struggling 150-block urban zone in Kansas City utilizes multiple ARRA funds and other resources to train and employ the jobless to perform various energy-efficient and green infrastructure projects in the area.
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Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The city of Memphis and Shelby County, TN along with local business leaders have developed a blueprint to transform the core city into a choice place for living and working by investing ARRA dollars and other funding sources into human capital, government efficiency and economic growth.
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Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
A new state program would draw on potential stimulus funds to establish a statewide revolving loan fund to accelerate mass-scale building energy efficiency audits and retrofits, and collaboratively expand opportunities for green workforce development and job placement.
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Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
A new regional entity is coordinating five counties in a joint application for competitive Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grants that calls for new retrofit loan financing, a technology deployment fund, technical assistance to local governments around energy efficiency plans, and energy performance measurement of public buildings.
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Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Seeking to bring together potential regional partners and coordinate requests for ARRA funding, the Puget Sound Regional Council has launched an online clearinghouse, message board and blog, as well as bi-weekly meetings, to inform area leaders about ARRA programs and process and opportunities for collaboration.
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Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Using ARRA funds in the short-term to seed a long-term initiative, a consortium of cities, counties, and local utilities in the Puget Sound area have banded together to advance innovative sustainability solutions in that region.
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Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Seattle’s Office of Sustainability and Environment will put ARRA funds to work providing home energy efficiency audits and retrofit financing, in partnership with regional utilities and area nonprofits.
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Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Six suburban jurisdictions around Washington DC came together under the leadership of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments to submit a joint NSP2 application that combines a region-scale loan fund with local-level flexibility in delivering homebuyer assistance and redeveloping select foreclosed properties for affordable rental housing.
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Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
To select the most high-impact, ready-to-go projects for stimulus funding, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority conducted a new, agency-wide structured process that will also serve as the framework for future capital needs decisions.
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Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Nine cites have submitted one joint application for the second round of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program that draws on at least 20 different regional institutions to take a multi-pronged approach to addressing the area’s problems with foreclosed, abandoned, and vacant properties.
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Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The detailed FY 2010 federal budget reveals many elements of the administration’s strategy to achieve needed reforms in schooling and worker skills. Alan Berube analyzes the significant steps in the departments of Education and Labor budgets toward a national economic strategy that invests strategically in human capital to improve our collective prosperity.
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Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Jennifer Bradley argues that sustainable growth strengthens existing cities and communities, conserves fiscal and natural resources, and advances U.S. efforts to address climate change and achieve energy independence—a central theme of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program’s Blueprint for American Prosperity
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Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Andrew Reamer points out that the Metropolitan Policy Program has long argued that current, accurate, and accessible federal socioeconomic statistics are necessary to sustain well-functioning metro regions.
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Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
At the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership meeting in Minneapolis, MN, Alan Berube outlined strengths and limitations of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act from a metropolitan perspective.
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Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The in-depth versions of President Obama’s first budget released in early May detail a number of significant direct and indirect investments in the innovation capacity of U.S. metropolitan areas. Several of these proposals reflect ideas generated by Metropolitan Policy Program experts.
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Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Robert Puentes discusses how President Obama’s FY 2010 budget holds the baseline on transportation infrastructure spending with slight increases at the modal agencies at the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Mark Muro and Jennifer Bradley argue that America’s national economic crisis is primarily a metropolitan crisis. How can we stimulate the economy when there’s no single U.S. economy, nor even 50 state economies? Instead we should concentrate on the loosely linked network of 363 metropolitan economies for the good of the nation.
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Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT
President Obama has tasked General Motors with creating a credible model to succeed in the global market. But the president does not go far enough in transforming the U.S. auto industry, writes Howard Wial. He urges Obama to be more specific about the scope of federal assistance to communities suffering from plant closings and mass layoffs.
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Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT
America’s national economic crisis is also a metropolitan crisis, because metropolitan areas are the true engines of the national economy. So it matters intensely how well the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) empowers metropolitan leaders to boost prosperity. This paper finds that although ARRA is limited in its support for creative metropolitan-area implementation, it delivers critical investments in what matters to metros and holds out significant opportunity for metropolitan empowerment and problem-solving.
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Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Mark Muro explains how President Obama’s first budget makes important gestures toward putting commercial innovation at the center of national economic concern.
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Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Jennifer Bradley argues that sustainable growth strengthens our existing metropolitan areas, conserves fiscal and natural resources and advances our nation’s efforts to address climate change and find alternative sources of energy. She notes how President Obama's first budget advances some of these goals.
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Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Robert Puentes discusses how President Obama’s FY 2010 budget marks a shift in transportation policy, especially in mass transit. One proposal to create and fund a National Infrastructure would provide financial assistance to qualified and innovative infrastructure projects—from road and rails to ports and pipes—that matter to the nation as a whole or to a group of multiple states.
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Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Alan Berube analyzes how President Obama's first budget places hopeful new emphasis on graduating more students from college. Community colleges enroll increasing numbers of students, but for several reasons fail to graduate most of them—particularly those from lower-income backgrounds—through to a degree or certificate.
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Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
A historic fiscal experiment in this country will evolve in the weeks, months and years ahead as a $790 billion stimulus package is spent to revive America’s economy. Metropolitan Policy Program experts suggest how this money might be strategically deployed to invigorate our nation’s metropolitan areas, the sources of national prosperity.
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Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The final House-Senate compromise on the economic recovery package offers no boost for HUD’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program, established last year to help state and local governments mitigate the impact of foreclosures. Alan Berube and Alan Mallach argue that additional funds for the program (part of the House proposal omitted in the final bill) would provide much-needed assistance to local communities.
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Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Enrollment in community colleges is surging, driven by a tough economy and increasing skills requirements for gainful employment. Sarah Goldrick-Rab and Alan Berube explain that this environment, as well as longer-term economic growth imperatives, calls for a focused federal commitment to community colleges in order to boost educational attainment.