For all in business, community and economic development along with workforce
training and redevelopment a great Web 2.0 piece enitled - The Decline:  The
Geography of a Recession has been configured and published by journalist and
writer Latoya Egwuekwe.  See the link below. It is a tremendous undertaking and
well worth the view.

http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html

 

        

Yeah, we are in the midst of the Great Recession, but it is important to remember the holidays. So as a part of our annual commitment to Californians, here is this year's list of just some of the great holiday events across the Golden State. << MORE >>

After one of the most difficult years on record for retailers and consumers, Southern Californians are more optimistic as the holiday shopping season kicks off, << MORE >>

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are names Madison Avenue has given to the 
Friday and Monday after Thanksgiving for days associated with shopping
specifically for the holidays. 

Throughout the months of November and December, the retail sector will be
showcased at www.CaliforniaBusinessMinute.com .  What do Black Friday and
Cyber Monday mean to California's economy and is the California consumer
still shell shocked by the recession or are they planning to loosen the up their
pocketbooks this holdiay season?

Read Minutes, articles and inteviews for information on California's retail sector.

        

In the effort to try to promote the business environment and economic climate of this state, as the self –proclaimed Chief Evangelist Officer of California, I do my best. But some days, I feel it just isn’t worth << MORE >>

Healthcare is one of the largest employment sectors of the the state's economy
and one of the fastest growing as well.  Throughout the month of October 2009,
the California Business Minute will be showcasing the sector in articles and
Minutes. 

Of significant interest with all of the discussion on healthcare, and healthcare reform
little information is available on what the key direct and indirect multiplier impacts are from
healthcare on the state's economy.  Research has found information  from the American
Hospital Association on the impacts from hospitals statewide and from allied healthcare
employment in southern California, but little is available statewide from the sector.

However, the California Business Minute has been able to cull together information that
identifies basic impacts from the sector to illustrate its enormous impact.  View these and
other articles this month at the Home Page of www.CaliforniaBusinessMinute.com.

        

IS PROSPERITY POSSIBLE FOR CALIFORNIA? The title of this series, Harsh Realities: The Issues Facing California and its Economic Recovery, make it appear that the premise is to paint a bleak economic picture of the state, << MORE >>

This is the third part of the three part series that reviews three of the most compelling economic policy studies on the California economy completed in 2009. The report, ‘New Patterns of Immigrant Settlement in California’, July 2009 by Sarah Bohn of the Public Policy Institute of California, PPIC has identified a variety of interesting changes in immigration. << MORE >>

This is the second part of the three part series that reviews three of the most compelling economic policy
studies on the California economy completed in 2009.

This report, Manufacturing 2.0, A More Prosperous California completed for the California Manufacturing
Technology Association, CMTA by the Milken Institute illustrates that California’s economy has been built
on the success of manufacturing.

The report illustrates California’s manufacturing history started with the development of mechanized
agronomy at the end of the 19th century, continuing into aerospace and the dominance of computers
and software in the 20th, to the growth of biotechnology specifically in the 21st.

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Part #1 Assessing the State of the Golden State. The California Prosperity Project is a major undertaking by the Pacific Research Institute to help reform government policies with the goal of putting California’s economy back on track and moving towards greater and lasting prosperity. << MORE >>