August 30 2024
News

CEG Economic Development Week in Review August 26 – August 30, 2024

Stay up-to-date on business and economic development happenings in the Capital Region with the CEG Economic Development Week in Review. Don’t miss out on the developments that are transforming the region by following us on:   REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEWS Applied BioPhysics awarded $1.8 million for cell assurance monitor “Applied

August 23 2024
News

CEG Economic Development Week in Review August 12 – August 23, 2024

Stay up-to-date on business and economic development happenings in the Capital Region with the CEG Economic Development Week in Review. Don’t miss out on the developments that are transforming the region by following us on:   CEG IN THE NEWS Post Star: Prison New York: Economics of closing, how bad

August 15 2024
Employment/Workforce, Manufacturing

Capital Region MFG Workforce with Associate’s Eclipses High School Grads

Workers with some college or an associate’s degree are increasingly outnumbering those with a high school diploma or equivalent (e.g., GED) in the Capital Region’s manufacturing sector, according to a Center for Economic Growth (CEG) analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s QWI Explorer. In 2008, the eight-county Capital

August 15 2024
News

CEG In The News: July 2024

See the below articles from the past month for news about CEG: CEG Announcements/Op-eds/Media Mentions Senate Majority Leader Chuck: Schumer Announces $6 million Fed Workforce Training Grant Foreign Affairs: Schumer Announces $6 million Fed Workforce Training Grant Semiconductor Engineering: Building A Sustainable And Diverse Semiconductor Workforce: Insights From ASMC 2024

August 15 2024
Entrepreneurship

Capital Region has Upstate’s 2nd Most Gig and Other Self-Employed Enterprises with Women Ownership

The Capital Region has upstate New York’s second greatest number of women who wholly and equally own businesses with no employees (i.e., nonemployer firms), that are wholly or equally owned by women, according to a Center for Economic Growth (CEG) analysis of new U.S. Census Bureau data. Data from the

August 15 2024
Employment/Workforce

High School-Aged Worker Employment Hits 15-Year High in the Capital Region

Employment among the Capital Region’s high school-aged workers climbed to a 15-year high in 2023, driven by job gains in the construction and restaurant industries, according to a Center for Economic Growth (CEG) analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics.   In 2023, the eight-county Capital

August 9 2024
News

CEG Economic Development Week in Review July 29 – August 2, 2024

Stay up-to-date on business and economic development happenings in the Capital Region with the CEG Economic Development Week in Review. Don’t miss out on the developments that are transforming the region by following us on:   REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEWS Latham Group buys Coverstar Central for $64.5M “Fiberglass swimming pool

July 26 2024
News

CEG Economic Development Week in Review July 22 – July 26, 2024

Stay up-to-date on business and economic development happenings in the Capital Region with the CEG Economic Development Week in Review. Don’t miss out on the developments that are transforming the region by following us on:   CEG IN THE NEWS Semiconductor Engineering: Building A Sustainable And Diverse Semiconductor Workforce: Insights

July 19 2024
News

CEG Economic Development Week in Review July 15 – July 19, 2024

Stay up-to-date on business and economic development happenings in the Capital Region with the CEG Economic Development Week in Review. Don’t miss out on the developments that are transforming the region by following us on:   CEG IN THE NEWS Senate Majority Leader Chuck: Schumer Announces $6 million Fed Workforce

July 16 2024
Success Story

Success Story: The 25th Anniversary of CEG’s Industry Attraction ‘Turning Point’

  Twenty-five years ago this July marked a “turning point” in the Center for Economic Growth’s efforts to raise within the semiconductor industry the status of the Capital Region and attract to it a chip fab. It was in July 1999 when CEG broke from standard marketing practices to host

Funding Partners