In a Statement of Administration Policy (SAP) released on Monday, the President said he would support the current legislation being debated this week in the Senate to reauthorize the 2008 Farm Bill. Specifically, the SAP states that the administration supports a farm bill that will “promote rural development, preserve a farm safety net, maintain strong [...]
NARC Releases Economic Competitiveness Planning Report: In partnership with the McKnight Foundation, the Metropolitan Council (Minneapolis, MN) and MZ Strategies, LLC, NARC released Planning for Regional Competitiveness: For Regional Economic Partners in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metropolitan Area. Thirty peer regions were surveyed providing a status assessment of current regional economic competitiveness and equity planning efforts nationwide. [...]
Last week, senior staff from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) joined NARC members for a webinar to discuss funding available for regional planning activities through the Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership (IMCP) initiative. The IMCP program is an administration-wide initiative that aims to accelerate the resurgence of manufacturing and help cultivate [...]
Both the House and Senate Agriculture Committees will consider their respective versions of the 2013 Farm Bill reauthorization this week. The draft bills, which were released late last week, are similar to proposals advanced in 2012. The House bill, The Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management (FARRM) Act of 2013 makes significant additional cuts to [...]
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