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Author: Jennie Blizzard
Employment
Fed’s Occupational Mobility Explorer enhances opportunities for job seekers and workforce development professionals
May 27, 2026
The Federal Reserve’s Occupational Mobility Explorer illustrates how a skills-based approach to hiring can benefit workers, workforce development professionals, employers, and human resources professionals.
Read more → : Fed’s Occupational Mobility Explorer enhances opportunities for job seekers and workforce development professionals
Consumer Credit and Capital Economic Development Housing
Innovation and collaboration help drive access to capital in rural communities
April 7, 2026
Accessing funding and capital can be difficult in rural and urban communities. But the barriers for rural communities can be heightened due to capacity and resource constraints. Organizations are using creativity to turn challenges into opportunities.
Read more → : Innovation and collaboration help drive access to capital in rural communities
Economic Development Employment
Industry, workforce, and education advance together to strengthen West Texas’s manufacturing sector
January 7, 2026
The Big Country Manufacturing Alliance (BCMA) aligns cross-sector efforts to strengthen the manufacturing industry in West Central Texas.
Read more → : Industry, workforce, and education advance together to strengthen West Texas’s manufacturing sector
Economic Development Employment
More than books: East Hartford library connects residents to workforce development
August 12, 2025
East Hartford Works!, a place-based initiative in Connecticut, models how collaboration, a shared vision, and common goals can create effective workforce development programs and strategies for residents.
Read more → : More than books: East Hartford library connects residents to workforce development
Economic Development Employment
Place matters: Driving change through shared vision, goals, and data
August 12, 2025
Place-based initiatives unite local stakeholders around a shared vision to address community challenges. Through coordinated strategies and data-driven action, these efforts focus resources in specific areas to create lasting impact, achieving more together than any organization could alone.
Read more → : Place matters: Driving change through shared vision, goals, and data
Employment
Rutger’s Heldrich Center uses data to help bolster workforce initiatives
June 2, 2025
The John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development provides research expertise and analysis to organizations, including the Fed, to help improve education, training, and workforce development programs that affect employers and employees.
Read more → : Rutger’s Heldrich Center uses data to help bolster workforce initiatives
Economic Development Small Business
Project highlights factors that influence Black business owners’ attitudes about debt
August 13, 2024
Data and conversations help inform reasons why Black businesses can be hesitant to apply for credit and emphasize the need for more education about the loan underwriting process.
Read more → : Project highlights factors that influence Black business owners’ attitudes about debt
Economic Development
Intermediary connects projects, people, and dollars
June 26, 2024
Invest Appalachia and the Fed have joined forces to help rural communities and small towns turn investment-worthy ideas into investment-ready ones.
Read more → : Intermediary connects projects, people, and dollars
Housing
Creative funding and relationships shape affordable housing efforts in central Nebraska
February 12, 2024
Discover how the Central Nebraska Economic Development District champions affordable housing in rural Nebraska. Executive Director Judy Petersen shares innovative strategies and financing mechanisms for delivering housing solutions in small communities.
Read more → : Creative funding and relationships shape affordable housing efforts in central Nebraska
Housing
Music teacher plants roots in rural Nebraska town
February 12, 2024
Discover how a dedicated music teacher, Doug Erb, rooted himself in rural Nebraska, navigating the challenges of finding affordable housing and contributing to community growth.
Read more → : Music teacher plants roots in rural Nebraska town
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