Economic Development for Health Care & Service Industries

What is happening? A Harvard Kennedy School expert says economic development programs should be broadened to focus on creating more good jobs in health care, retail and other service industries that are experiencing high employee turnover, low wages and low productivity.

Why does this matter? The expert says that economic development policies usually throw money and at a problem, and a better solution is “collaboration involving business, academia, entrepreneurs and the government, where technology’s role is to assist workers rather than replace them.”

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