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Ohio awarded $22 million in TIGER Grants

According to a recent article in The Columbus Dispatch, the City of Columbus and at least nine of its suburbs (Dublin, Gahanna, Grandview Heights, Grove City, Hillard, New Albany, Upper Arlington, Westerville, and Worthington) have "reached an agreement to curtail job poaching, the practice of enticing companies to move jobs – and the income ...

The Ohio Department of Development’s Office of Energy recently announced the launch of the Energy Loan Fund program to provide low-cost financing to energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.

The Associated Press reports that the recent passage of America's toughest and most comprehensive law against illegal immigrants in Alabama is causing foreign companies to deeply examine where to invest and expand their businesses.

A recent article in the The Dayton Daily News  reported on a Georgetown University study that predicts there will be more job openings in blue-collar fields than "food and personal services, managerial and professional office work, education, health care and STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields."

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) released state figures this morning noting that Ohio’s unemployment rate was 8.5 percent in November, down a half of percent from 9.0 in the month of October. The number of workers unemployed in the state of Ohio in November was 496,000 down from 526,000 in October.

The Duke Energy Foundation, out of its Urban Revitalization Pilot Program, will award nearly $290,000 in grants for economic development purposes.

In an effort to meet the needs of its business customers, Delta Air Lines announced that it will add flights and air service out of the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) starting early March 2012, Cincinnati.com reports.

Today the Ohio Department of Development goes live with the new state program to provide income tax credits on small business investments.