USDA Projects in North Carolina Mapped
The USDA has made a new compass map available — Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Compass Map http://www.usda.gov/maps/maps/kyfcompassmap.htm. Viewers can see where U.S. Department of Agriculture...
View ArticleDoes Your Community Have the Capacity to Undertake Community Economic...
Say you have learned of a community economic development (CED) program that seems to be a perfect fit for your area. The need is already there and well documented, the program provides the right mix...
View ArticleWhat’s Going On With the Federal Budget? A Review of the Basics with a Focus...
Congress and the White House are in the midst of budget negotiations, making it a good time to review federal budget basics so community and economic development professionals will understand how...
View ArticleWho’s Moved Out and Who’s Moved In: Exploring Housing and Migration Data...
Numerous prestigious universities in North Carolina hold huge amounts of expertise and data, but often it is inaccessible to professionals working at the local level. The relatively new center called...
View ArticleLocal Government Associations are Cautiously Optimistic about Economic Growth...
Spring means budget season for local governments in North Carolina. Budget offices start budget formulation as early as December or January, but the most intense activity around the budget comes in...
View ArticleWhere in NC are the Most Distressed Communities? According to New Report,...
The Center for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS) at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently released a new report challenging the common idea that rural areas are the most distressed...
View ArticleDo Your Local Economic Development Plans Depend on the Middle Class … in China?
The Association for Public Policy and Management (APPAM) recently held an international conference in Segovia, Spain around the theme “The Decline of the Middle Class?” The question mark at the end was...
View ArticleThree Headlines, Two Futures for North Carolina?
Three important headlines for economic and community development officials appeared in the past several days in the New York Times, Washington Post, and, closer to home, the News and Observer. On...
View ArticleA New Blog from the NC Department of Commerce for Community and Economic...
When is it fair to write a blog post about another blog? When the goal is to let the local economic and community development professional community know about a new valuable information resource. In...
View ArticleYou say you want “Big Data” for Community Economic Development, but are you...
When you make a decision to go forward with a Community Economic Development (CED) project or policy, have you thought through the ramifications for your staff or budget? This year, a course paper on...
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CED Winners and Losers in the Same Space: Income Inequality in North Carolina
Community and economic development professionals are careful in monitoring the economic health of their communities. Economic growth is heralded; economic stress is cause for concern. One of the...
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Capacity Matters For CED, Part 2: News For the NC Food Industry and Farmers
Food is in the news, and CED professionals should look below the surface images and arguments to a fundamental question raised about local capacity issues important to the NC farm and food industry. In...
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Live Long and Prosper: Does CED Impact How Long We Live?
I often think about ways in which local government matters in the daily lives of citizens. This month, a major study was released showing how local conditions, and community and economic development,...
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Is Your Local Community Partner Ready To Go?
In July 2013, I wrote a blog proposing a four-part framework for understanding if specific local organizations have the capacity to implement CED programs. How well does this framework hold up when...
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Understanding the Tools Available for CED Professionals: How Far Do NC Local...
This past Friday, at the Southeastern Conference for Public Administration 2016 Annual Conference in Raleigh, second year UNC MPA graduate student Sabrina Willard accepted the Robert Klein Award for...
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Current Positive Economic News? Cheer, Then Take a Breath and Look Deeper at...
There have been numerous national reports of positive economic information over the past six months. Unemployment is low, economic growth is steady and even growing, jobs are being created and 10 years...
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Making the Case for Affordable Housing: Using BLS Statistics to ask Hard...
Last year, nursing assistants in Goldsboro earned $11.83 an hour (median wage) for a mean annual salary of $24,610. Is this a sufficient wage to sustain a person who wants to live and work there?...
View ArticleHow Should We Measure Community and Household Economic Conditions?
One of the fundamental measures for CED officials to track is a community’s economic condition. This issue of measuring economic condition, whether for an entire community or a single household, has...
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Lessons for CED from Europe: Inclusive Communities and a New City-Run Food...
The photo was eerily familiar to anyone interested in CED. The headline from the New York Times article on September 20, just days before the German national election, read, “Merkel Says Germans...
View ArticleEconomic Impact of NC Summer Foods Program
Maureen Berner is a School of Government faculty member Did you know that across North Carolina, only about 12 percent of eligible kids receive free summer meals via an existing federally funded Summer...
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