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Notes:
Jobs have grown faster in the states and metropolitan areas of the heartland Great Plains than the rest of the nation since 1990.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Employment Statistics
Basic Info Michael Lind is the Whitehead Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is the author, with Ted Halstead, of "The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics" (Doubleday, 2001). He is also the author of "Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics" (New America Books/Basic, 2003) and "What Lincoln Believed" (Doubleday, 2005). Mr. Lind has been an editor or staff writer for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and The New Republic. From 1991 to 1994, he was executive editor of The National Interest.
Basic Info Susanne Trimbath, Ph.D. is CEO and Chief Economist of STP Advisory Services. Dr. Trimbath’s credits include appearances on national television and radio programs and the Emmy® Award nominated Bloomberg report Phantom Shares. Dr. Trimbath served as a Technical Advisor to the California Economic Strategy Panel and Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics at University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. Dr. Trimbath was formerly Senior Research Economist at the Milken Institute and Senior Advisor on the Russian capital markets project for KPMG.
Basic Info Dennis M. Powell is founder and president of Massey Powell, a strategic communications and digital strategy consulting company headquartered in Plymouth Meeting, PA. Visit us at www.masseypowell.com .
Basic Info Richard Morrill is Professor Emeritus of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Washington. His research interests include: political geography (voting behavior, redistricting, local governance), population/demography/settlement/migration, urban geography and planning, urban transportation (i.e., old fashioned generalist).
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Standard & Poor's Case Shiller Index
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Number of filings per 1,000 properties, Aug. 2008
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Source: Praxis Strategy Group analysis of Dave Leip's USA Election Atlas, uselectionatlas.org
Basic Info Urban Planner, Facilitator, Artist, Blogger. Specializing in community engagement, urban design, organizational development.
Collingwood, ONT and Whidbey Island, WA
Basic Info Dr. Roger Selbert is one of the best-known and most respected trend experts in the United States. As a business futurist, his 20-year track record of economic, social and demographic foresight is unequalled. Roger is Principal of The Growth Strategies Group, a trend research consulting firm; Editor & Publisher of Growth Strategies, a trend letter formerly known as FutureScan; Economic Analyst and Principal for the Consumer Demand Index, a monthly survey of American households' buying intentions; and Senior Fellow at the La Jolla Institute, a "new economy" think-tank.
