Forum: Regionalization Can Help Stop the Economic Decline
New Haven Register › December 08, 2008
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OF 15 area towns, none, except New Haven, has more than 33 percent of their working residents commuting to jobs within their town's borders. Stated differently, 67 percent or more of residents of 14 of the region's 15 towns depend on employment outside of their town. In other words, they depend on the economic health of the region as a whole, and not merely on the economic health of their particular town. Our towns are inherently regional and economically interdependent.
If the economic health of the region suffers, there is no single government or private organization with the appropriate scope to address the problem, except the Regional Growth Partnership.See the full content of this document
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Forum: Regionalization Can Help Stop the Economic Decline
The RGP is a partnership of 13 town governments, public and private sector institutions with the objective of stimulating sustainable economic growth in a region that has stagnated for decades.
Some of the RGP's patrons have not been h...See the full content of this document
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