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Workforce Scores Big in Southern Nevada

by Savannah King

Southern Nevada is stepping up its workforce game with key partnerships and initiatives.

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Stacking the Deck

by Savannah King

Push for training drives innovative programs in higher education, creates opportunity for Americans.

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Investment Profile

Talent On Tap

by Adam Bruns

The Detroit Region’s high-tech, advanced and increasingly youthful workforce has the global research, design and manufacturing expertise to drive innovation across industry sectors.

The Detroit Region’s momentum is powered by people.

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Features

Why Amazon’s Building Binge Has Just Begun

by Gary Daughters

Amazon’s corporate headquarters in Seattle

Source: Amazon

Amazon, which began 2020 as a mere juggernaut, enters 2021 a monolith.

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The Rx for a Thriving Life Sciences Sector

by Savannah King

Bolstered by higher education, diversity and talent, New Jersey’s robust life sciences sector is healthy and growing.

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Tech Tradition

by Gary Daughters

New Jersey is riding its flair for innovation into the digital age.

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Where International Companies Need to Be

by Mark Arend

According to the Global Business Alliance, New Jersey has the highest concentration of foreign direct investment (FDI) jobs as a share of private-sector employment in the U.S.

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Where Innovation Happens

by Savannah King

New Jersey’s entrepreneurs are in good company among the state’s many collaborative workspaces.

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Features

Not Waiting For the World to Change

by Adam Bruns

Oregon-based BPO firm FCR’s pivot to a work-from-home scenario in spring 2020 required a bit of rewiring. Then the firm found itself growing faster than ever before.

Photo courtesy of FCR

FCR pivots to diversity, remote work and a host of new locations in one fell swoop.

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Investment Profile

Food and Beverage Steeped in Hampton Roads

by Adam Bruns

Photo: Getty Images

Global food and beverage companies continue to make major investments in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News metro area.

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Features

Where Talent Is Migrating To — and From

For the last five years, Emsi has been tracking how communities are faring in their efforts to attract and develop talent.

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Investment Profile

The New Place To Be

by Gary Daughters

Bosch’s Technology Center for Automated Mobility in Braga, Portugal

Courtesy of Bosch

Portugal has made itself a compelling location for tech and mobility investments.

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Investment Profile

How One Texas City Built A Workforce Ecosystem During the Pandemic

by Ron Starner

EMT students in training in Pflugerville.

Courtesy of Workforce Solutions Capital Area

The Pflugerville Community Development Corp. was the catalyst for bringing together various partnerships that filled workforce gaps and put many people back to work.

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Features

Locations Roll Out the Red Carpet for Netflix Investment

by Adam Bruns

Netflix’s five-story public art piece, SPECTRUM, at its new office space at On Vine in Hollywood, California.

Photo courtesy of Kilroy Realty Corp.

Entertainment may be a replication of real life, but its production supports actual livelihoods across a range of professions.

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Investment Profile

‘A Good Chunk of Change’

by Adam Bruns

The agricultural heritage of Parkland County feeds into the area’s food and ag-tech innovation leadership for Greater Edmonton and all of Alberta.

A major county in Greater Edmonton looks to be an agent of transformation and cost savings at the same time.

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International Update

Opportunities Along the New Silk Rail Route

The Urumqi skyline, a crucial point along the Belt & Road, has also been a target of China’s poverty alleviation and urbanization efforts.

Getty Images

In the last five years, the number of operational rail services on the New Silk Rail Route between China and Europe has grown to about 150 rail shuttles per week.

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Investment Profile

Welcome to the New Nebraska

by Ron Starner

Omaha skyline

Photo by Bill Magrath

Gov. Ricketts competes to win, and so do the people who work for him.

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Features

The 2021 Regional Workforce Development Rankings

by Mark Arend

See which states lead the way in talent cultivation, training and attraction across seven U.S. regions.

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Departments

Editor’s View: A Time to Look Forward

by Mark Arend

The month of January, Editor in Chief Mark Arend reminds us, was named for the Roman god Janus, who looks backward and forward at the same time.

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Investment Profile

Closing the Talent Gap

by Ron Starner

California State University-San Bernardino

Photo courtesy of CSU-SB

How one California county equips workers with skills in technology and entrepreneurship.

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Features

5 Ways COVID-19 Changed Site Selection

by Ron Starner

COVID-19 didn’t just upset the established model of corporate site selection in 2020; the global pandemic obliterated it.

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State of the States 2021

Building our readers’ knowledge and capabilities is the purpose of State of the States, Site Selection’s painstakingly assembled annual compendium of data that matter to global corporate location decision-makers.

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