New Trade Routes

Drawing digital pathways on the new trade maps.

Seattle, WA USA

Trade drives the way people interact.  People, products, money, and ideas follow the trade routes and impact everything in their path.  Keeping pace with the way trade routes are changing is essential to success or even survival.  New Trade Routes is working to better understand the changes so we can help our clients, investees, and grantees improve their chances of success.

 

3 Strikes on Washington

March 11, 2010  /  Jay Leon

I have been resisting the urge to weigh in on local politics.  Today the flood of data became more than I could hold back.

  •  Here is an article from the Puget Sound Business Journal last Friday where our State Legislature is considering taxing everyone with income over $200,000 in exchange for lowering the sales tax.
  • The union membership statistics were released Tuesday by the US Department of Labor:  we are the 4th most unionized state in the country (20.2%).
  • Here are the numbers on high school graduation rates in our state as reported by the National Center for Educational Statistics:  we are 34th in our ability to graduate students from high school (72.9%).

 Sure there are states in worse shape than ours.  I wonder how much farther down we are going to go before we figure out how to solve some of these problems.

No one ever wants to end on a sour note, so here is another article from the Puget Sound Business Journal:  SeaTac was No. 1 in on time arrivals in January (86%)!

 

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