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Workforce Training: Engineering A Skilled Workforce

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Here’s the good news: most of the states (and the federal government) got the memo (Workforce Training is Job One) and they are moving aggressively to put in place innovative and highly effective workforce training programs that put forward-thinking businesses and higher education resources on the same team. VIRGINIA’S TRADITION OF TRAINING.

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2012 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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For example, this year we supplemented our traditional Best Education Climate ranking with a scorecard of the states that emerged out front in the fierce competition for federal Race to the Top education funding. Virginia maintained its leadership in our Economic Growth Potential category with a second-place finish.

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FEATURE STORY: 2014 Economic Development Awards

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According to the program website, START-UP NY is geared to give businesses access to resources of world-class higher education institutions, including industry experts and advanced research laboratories. Program instructors can be either full- or part-time educators, vendors, subject matter experts or professional trainers from the business.

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NFPA 285 engineering judgments

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that permit the use of engineering analysis to determine fire resistance. Acceptance criteria determining the pass/fail result is a combination of temperature limitations, temperature-rise limitations, and visual observations of flaming at specified locations in the test specimen and the second-story room of the test apparatus.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Property Tax Abatements: The Tax Incentive Reform Act of 1992 (TIRA) allows qualified industries to receive abatements of non-educational property taxes for new businesses locating to Alabama and for expansions of existing facilities in Alabama. The combined state and local millage rate would then be applied to the assessed value.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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The capital credit is used only after all other deductions, losses or credits permitted under Titles 40 and 41 of the Code of Alabama 1975. EMPLOYER EDUCATION CREDIT: A tax credit is statutorily available to employers who provide approved basic skills education programs to Alabama resident employees.

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