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Announcements for Friday, March 15, 2013

Announcements

  • EGSA Friday After-Class event

    Join new EGSA board members with a Friday After-Class event. Enjoy a free round of drinks and appetizers. All are welcome; Professors, students, family members, and significant others as long as they are 21+. No RSVP is needed, just show up at the time and place listed below.

    • Date: Friday, March 15, 2013
    • Time: 5:00PM
    • Where: Welch Avenue Station (Please bring appropriate ID or you will not be allowed in.)
  • Administrative office hours during spring break

    The main office hours for spring break, March 18-22, will be 7:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

News

  • Hart says Brazil to overtake US as top soybean producer

    A combination of long-term trends and recent weather patterns are responsible for putting Brazil in a position to overtake U.S. soybean production for the first time, says Department of Economics grain markets specialist Chad Hart. Read the full ISU News Service article by Fred Love at: http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2013/03/11/brazilsoybeans

  • Swenson warns that Iowa's shrinking labor force will limit economic growth

    No combination of incentives will bolster job creation and economic development in Iowa if the state does not have the workforce to support new jobs. It is a reality that state leaders need to be aware of, said Dave Swenson, an associate scientist in Department of Economics at Iowa State University. Read the full ISU News Service article by Angie Hunt at: http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2013/03/13/iowalaborforce

  • Weekly media contacts for the Department of Economics

    Dave Swenson, associate scientist with the Department of Economics, spoke with Mike Devine, KVFD, Ft. Dodge, regarding the Lee County fertilizer plant and the ostensible fertilizer savings as a result for farmers that have been reported. 

    Additional contacts: 

    • WHO Radio, regarding the quality of job growth nationally, with emphasis on the fact the majority of job gains are lower wage, part time, and without benefits.
    • Art Cullen, Storm Lake Times, regarding the latest national population estimates.  In particular, 59 percent of Iowa's counties have been in cumulative natural decline (where deaths exceed births) this decade, which ranks us 6th worse in the nation.
    • Andrea Hsu, NPR, regarding the decline in manufacturing in the Midwest and especially the losses that occurred in Webster City when the Electrolux plant closed.  
    • Adam Allington, St. Louis Public Radio, regarding additional data for an NPR story on local food growth in the St. Louis area.
    • Donnelle Eller, DM Register, regarding a short paper authored by Swenson on population projections for Iowa and the implications for the state's economy. http://www.econ.iastate.edu/sites/default/files/publications/papers/p16040-2013-03-13.pdf

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