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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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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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News & Announcements (archive)

College financial aid awaits students
 Millions of dollars in federal and state financial aid is available for those who seek it out. read more

Green roof planned for Kentucky Center
The Kentucky Center is hoping to go green, planning to spend millions of dollars for what could become Louisville’s largest and most visible environmentally friendly roof. read more

Summitt examines ways to close student achievement gap
Attendees at a summit in Louisville discussed and analyzed the academic performance of African-American students and identified ways to close the racial achievement gap.   read more

Recession Officially Over, U.S. Incomes Kept Falling
 In a grim sign of the enduring nature of the economic slump, household income declined more in the two years after the recession ended than it did during the recession itself, new research has found. read more

Ideas for the "Low-Carbon" part of the "New Economy" equation
The Brookings Institution says the "new economy" will be export-oriented, driven by innovation, low-carbon and rich in opportunity."  A Fast Company blogger explores the top five transit technologies for the low-carbon economy. read more

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Our MissionThe 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.