Research & Insights

May 11 2018
Employment/Workforce, News

KeyBank Business Boost & Build Program, Powered by JumpStart, Awards $110K to Center for Economic Growth, Community Loan Fund and Excelsior Growth Fund to Fund Collaboration in New York’s Capital Region

PR Newswire Program awards grants across Upstate New York to help economic development organizations connect with small businesses in underrepresented communities ALBANY, N.Y., May 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Today, the KeyBank Business Boost & Build program, powered by JumpStart, awarded $110,000 to the Center for Economic Growth (CEG) in collaboration with

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May 11 2018
News

Economic Development Week in Review – May 7 – May 11, 2018

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 CEG’s Kennedy talks to the Daily Gazette about the “importance Fab

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May 7 2018
News

Economic Development Week in Review – April 30 – May 4, 2018

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 Times Union: New York must invest in chip industry or it

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May 2 2018
News

Economic Development Month in Review: April 2018

For the Top Economic Development News of the Month, CEG selects news articles about projects or developments that promise to improve and/or transform the Capital Region’s economy, particularly those that related to manufacturing and initiatives outlined in Capital 20.20, a five-year, multi-pronged plan for bringing economic prosperity to the entire

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April 27 2018
News

Economic Development Week in Review – April 23 – April 27, 2018

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 REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEWS Solar and gas industries fuel growth for

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April 20 2018
News

Economic Development Week in Review – April 16 – April 20, 2018

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 CEG’s Kennedy in Times Union: Columnist expressed narrow view of region

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April 17 2018
Employment/Workforce

Region’s Minority Unemployment Rate Drops

The region’s black unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level in years. In 2016, the Albany-Schenectady-Troy metropolitan statistical area (MSA) had a black unemployment rate of 12.5 percent, compared to 13.8 percent the previous year. Recently, that rate had climbed as high as 15.9 percent in 2013 according to

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April 17 2018
General, News

President’s Message – April, 2018

CEG has much planned for the coming months, including our 22nd Annual Technology Awards at the Rivers Casino. We are accepting nominations until April 27. If you know any tech startups, innovators, trailblazers, economic winners and against-the-odds success stories, nominate them today. Submit your nominations here. Registration for the June

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April 17 2018
General

Success Story: Vital Vio’s Light Shines Brighter Years after VentureB Pitches

In September 2014, Colleen Costello was in the midst of taking her anti-bacterial lighting system startup, Vital Vio, to the next level. That summer the company, founded two years earlier by Costello and her fellow Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) alumnus James Peterson, was in the process of tripling its three-person

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April 17 2018
Economic Analysis, Regional/County Profiles

Capital Region Population Growth Regains Momentum

The Capital Region was New York’s second fastest-growing region in 2017, with its population increasing over the year by 2,795, or 0.3 percent. This represented a return to more robust growth following three years of marginal gains. Over the past five years, the region’s population has grown by 0.4 percent,

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