Inability To Plan Will Hurt U.S. Regions

U.S. regions are not geared to competing in the harshly competitive in the 21st century's international economy.

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July 24, 2003, 8:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"...keenly competitive international regions will be out to grab our industries, equal our research labs and to train workers who can outperform many of ours.Given those harsh realities of the emerging 21st century economy, one has to wonder all the more about American states cutting back on transportation and schools and human services -- even while they fall over each other to lure sexy new plants with money they don't have. "

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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