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Slow Job Growth and Economic Structure in Cuyahoga County, OhioSlow Job Growth and Economic Structure in Cuyahoga County, Ohio by Dr. Robert Gleeson

Abstract: 

In July 2019 the current U.S. economic expansion will become ten years old, plus one month. This will make it the longest U.S. economic expansion since the end of World War Two.

For counties like Cuyahoga, the prolonged national economic expansion has created favorable conditions for economic renewal after decades of painful decline and restructuring.

State and local economic development strategies in Cuyahoga County have helped many companies and workers in traditional sectors re-establish national and/or global competitiveness.

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