Rural areas labor to save jobs: But training and tax breaks can go only so far

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Eveleth in Minnesota and other rural areas around the US have lost hundreds of manufacturing, mining and related businesses in the past several years, erasing many of their 1990s gains but politicians and business leaders are responding with subsidy proposals and aggressive marketing to lure businesses. But development experts warn that such strategies are less effective in a global marketplace in which companies have expanded access to the cheap land and labor, a selling point of rural America.

Labor force information, Administration of Urban Planning and Community and Rural Development, Rural Planning & Development, Employment, Rural development

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Non-profits start making painful cuts: Cash runs out as need grows

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Increase in demand and shrinking budgets are putting intense stress on the United States' vast non-profit sector, in 2003 that make up about 6% of the economy. Many of the problems stem directly from recession, which forced millions of unemployed and uninsured to turn to charity but government spending, vital to non-profits is under continued pressure.

SOCIAL SERVICES, Social Assistance, Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations, Nonprofit Institutions, Social Services & Nonprofit Institutns, Forecasts and trends, United States economic conditions, Market trend/market analysis, Nonprofit organizations, Political/non-profit organization software

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How's the economy looking to voters?

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Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, said that the future of business investment is difficult to assess during the current slow economy. Mr. Greenspand also said that Congress must pass budget cuts to provide assistance to tax reductions in stimulating the economy.

Executive changes & profiles, Taxes, Officials and employees, Economic conditions, Greenspan, Alan, United States. Federal Reserve Board, Portrayals, Tax policy, Industry forecasts

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