By Jonathan Aberman From The Washington Post: Experts agree that to create conditions to boost economic growth, we must focus on a region’s expertise. Well, in the greater Washington region’s efforts to find clusters that define its identity and create a competitive advantage, it might be short-changing an industry that is very much part of…
From The Sentinel: Jobs are in jeopardy for thousands of federal government employees in Montgomery County, as the Trump administration envisions cuts to locally-based agencies like the National Institutes of Health and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In his 2018 budget blueprint released last month, Trump proposes slashing NIH funding by nearly $6 billion…
From WTOP: For years, the skyline around D.C. has been dotted with cranes, the symbol of an economic boom in the nation’s capital and its once-sleepy suburbs. Now, some economists and business leaders worry President Donald Trump’s budget blueprint — which proposes extreme cuts to federal programs — could be the wrecking ball. Despite efforts to…
From The Houston Chronicle: The hottest niche in Houston’s recovering real estate market is warehouses, evidence of the city’s growing position as a distribution center for consumer goods in a rapidly evolving retail environment. Vacancies in office and manufacturing space continue to edge upward locally, and Houston just posted its slowest quarterly growth in retail…
From Bloomberg: Beyond the boom of younger workers flooding in, Washington is grappling with longer-term economic challenges The Washington, D.C. economy is preparing for the day when younger workers break up with it. The fading of a millennial-infused population boom in the nation’s capital that carried through the Obama years, combined with Trump’s efforts to slash…
