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Economic shortfalls identified SHERRY SLATER | The Journal Gazette An 18-month Brookings Institution study has identified three well-known weaknesses in Indiana's economy. The 136-page report was short on surprises but long on validation, according to an official with the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, which commissioned the study. The challenge now for economic development officials is to persuade owners of thousands of small- and medium-sized Hoosier businesses to buy into the report's recommendations, which include investing more heavily in technology, training workers and creating...

Brookings used those projections to see how growth differs from the baseline in different states. Tourism-heavy states, like Nevada, see the biggest percent differences. DC and Massachusetts may experience smaller changes to their employment growth because of the pandemic than other states, based on a new Brookings report. Mark Muro, senior fellow and policy director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, and research assistant Yang You looked at how employment may change across the US over 10 years. The analysis is based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics' recent projections that co...

The Bel Airs spend a lot of time on the road, but the band usually plays New Year’s Eve at home in Columbia. That won’t happen this year. Michael Cherry, 63, has been the drummer for the Columbia-based rock, rhythm and blues band for 25 years. “And I’m the new guy,” he said. While some musicians lost a hobby or a side business with the pandemic, Cherry lost a living. Since The Bel Airs went their separate ways when the pandemic hit in March, Cherry has been doing a hodgepodge of handyman work and spending time at home caring for his mother who has dementia.

December 8, 2020 COVID-19, a deadly pandemic that has disproportionately struck Black and Brown communities. We are centuries into the equally pernicious plague of police violence toward unarmed Black Americans. Both realities are grounded in structural white supremacy. Both have made plain the pervasive inequity baked into the American Experiment. As our moderator, Andre Perry, says in his book, “Know Your Price,” “The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects. … But there is nothing wrong with Bla...