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Greater Louisville Project releases its 2011 Competitive City Report.
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Mayor Fischer's Welcome at GLP's 2011 Competitive
City Report Release Event
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Education: Young Women Lead the Way
During the decade, Louisville forged unprecedented community collaboration and commitment to raise education attainment, and it is paying off, with the most recent year of data confirming a leap forward first noted last year.
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Jobs
Next Economy: Export & Innovate

Louisville's progress toward increasing employment in technical and professional fields stalled during the Great Recession, and the slow recovery is still hampering its evolution to a more knowledge-based economy for the 21st Century.
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Quality of Place: The Shifting Shape of the Community
Overall, Louisville's strength as a regional hub weakened over the decade. Its share of the region's 1.2 million population declined, as outer counties grew more rapidly than the 7% increase that brought Jefferson County's population up to 741,096.
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This snapshot in time, based on data and estimates from several sources, shows that a third of the 10,100 children born in Jefferson County in a typical year will not graduate from high school. Another third will pursue a postsecondary degree or credential but not graduate. At the end of the pipeline, 25%—or one in four—will earn a postsecondary degree or credential necessary to compete for 21st century jobs.
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Downtown Louisville Faces Opportunities, Challenges
The second annual "State of the Downtown" report was released last week. The study provides benchmark data and information for downtown Louisville and the downtown areas of its peer cities. read more

Women for Women Releases Benchmark II: Study of Women and Girls 2012
The new report examines the lives and economic situations of women in Louisville in four areas: Education & Leadership, Social Change & Single-Parent Economy, Jobs & EArnings, and Health & Safety read more

Measuring Louisville's Tree Canopy: Trees Key to a Cooler City
A study cited in today's Courier-Journal reveals that Louisville's urban tree canopy is thin, which may be contributing to higher-than-average rates of growth in urban temperature. read more

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Our Mission The Greater Louisville Project is an independent, non-partisan, civic initiative organized by The Community Foundation of Louisville and supported by a consortium of philanthropic foundations. Its mission is to act as a catalyst for action, providing research, data, and analytic tools in support of the agenda for long-term progress outlined in the 2002 Brookings Institution Report, "Beyond Merger: A Competitive Vision for the Regional City of Louisville." Additional research identified "Deep Drivers of Change" designed to move Louisville into the top tier among its peer cities by 2010 in three key areas: Education, 21st Century Jobs and Quality of Place.