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Written by Emily Del Real and Breanna Burbridge. In 2017, Extension Community Development and the Purdue Center for Regional Development (PCRD) sought a way to help Indiana small businesses enhance their online presence. Together they created the Digital Ready Businesses…
Written by Jessica Wandless and Bo Beaulieu and Breanna Burbridge. PCRD will be participating in this year’s Purdue Day of Giving on Wednesday, April 27th for the first time ever! Your generous gift will help support and expand the innovative…
Written by Bo Beaulieu, Roberto Gallardo, Indraneel Kumar, Jessica Wandless and Breanna Burbridge. The Purdue Center for Regional Development (PCRD) is committed to supporting innovative regional (multi-county) activities by guiding the development and implementation of high quality comprehensive economic development…
A new Research and Policy Insights (RPI) report released by the Purdue Center for Regional Development (PCRD) last week highlighted the changing nature of Indiana’s workforce over the May 2021 to October 2021 time period. The report, which I was…
The global pandemic of 2020 has caused a major spike in unemployment in every state in the union, as well as much of the world – and Indiana has been no exception. To begin examining how COVID-19 affected Indiana’s unemployment…
The United States Census Bureau released 2020 Census figures in August. These figures are part of the decennial Census that provides population, racial/ethnic information, housing, and group quarter information at the Census block level, the smallest geographical unit for which…
Written by Roberto Gallardo and Benjamin St. Germain. To better understand population change, the U.S. Census keeps track of what it calls components of population change. These components include natural (difference between births and deaths), international (inflows and outflows to…
Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch and Denny Spinner, executive director of the Office of Community and Rural Affairs, recently appointed Purdue Center for Regional Development (PCRD) Director and Purdue Extension specialist, Roberto Gallardo to serve on the newly formed Rural Affairs…