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    How Hendricks County Used JobsEQ to Create a Targeted Economic Development Plan

    Does your county have a plan for economic development? Hendricks County does. Hendricks County has become widely recognized as one of Indiana’s strongest economic and logistics engines. Located...
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    Economic Impact: Signs of a Slowdown? Watch the Job Market, Which is Slowing Down

    This article was originally published in the Richmond Times Dispatch on March 6, 2023.  Given the strength of the labor market and expectations by some for a recession in the later part of 2023,...
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    Identifying Peer Regions with Evansville Regional Business Committee

    The Problem   The Evansville Regional Business Committee (ERBC) is a coalition of business partners with an ambitious goal: make Southwest Indiana the talent and economic region of choice in the...
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    Chmura Consulting Helps Berkshire Workforce Board Understand Recessionary Impact

    The Problem MassHire Berkshire Workforce Board (BWB) is the lead workforce development organization in Berkshire County, a rural county in Massachusetts. BWB is proud of its strong partnerships with...
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    Chmura Helps the Greater Richmond Partnership Bring Companies Like the LEGO Group to Richmond

      The Problem   The Greater Richmond Partnership (GRP) is the lead regional economic development organization for the City of Richmond and the counties of Chesterfield, Hanover, and Henrico in...
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    An Update on the Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Women in the Workforce

    A lot has changed since our first blog on this topic in late 2021, and newly released data shed additional light on the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on female employment and its continued...
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    Preliminary Wages

    JobsEQ now includes preliminary estimates for occupation wages in order to provide a more timely compensation data set. These data build upon the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s (BLS) OEWS[1] data set...
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    2022 Job Ad Trends

    What trended in the workforce in 2022 and what does that hold for 2023? This article explores that question using the RTI[1] jobs ad dataset from JobsEQ.   The Overall Market     New online job ad...
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    Economic Impact: Is a recession in the forecast for 2023? Yield curve says yes

    This article was originally published in the Richmond Times Dispatch on January 8, 2023.  Recessions are hard to predict, but many observers are forecasting one for 2023. I’m in that camp as well....
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