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Are Retailers Buying Your Retail Program?
Economic developers didn't pay much attention to retailing until the beginning of the 21st century.  Many now have launched efforts to court retailing to enhance the community's quality of life and to augment retail sales tax collections, a growing source of public revenue since the 1980s.  But most of these programs are failing to deliver results because they ignore the fundamental equation of retail:  "My retail neighbors are as important to me as the size of the market."
 
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Taimerica Quality Jobs Program Cited as Success by Gov. Blunt of Missouri 
Taimerica research pioneered the Quality Jobs program, originally passed in the state of Missouri in 2005.  This program continues to demonstrate Taimerica's expertise in crafting economic development plans that work, and getting them enacted into law.  Gov. Blunt of Missouri attributes the creation of "more than 22,000 new jobs across Missouri" to the Quality Jobs program in his editorial that you can read here.

And the Missouri legislature supports this program on both sides of the aisle as you can read here.

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Taimerica Ideas on Global Trade in the Press
The ideas from our last newletter feature article has made headlines.  The April 18 Wall Street Journal Online concurs with Taimerica that "a stark picture is emerging of an economy on two tracks" specifically, businesses that compete in international markets, and those that do not.
The article is here.

And Caterpillar, the centerpiece of Taimerica's article, is singled out in related WSJ.com coverage as leading the way with this trend.
Get the Caterpillar update here.

Another U.S. company competing successfully in the global markets is Google, who for the first time attributes more than 50 percent of their revenue to international sales. 
Read the New York Times coverage here.