Our weekly Top Five feature offers big stories or views from the past week with policy and legislative implications.
- Important to save the world’s fisheries, Rock Hill Herald, March 30, 2016
“First, the bad news: The world’s fisheries, which feed billions of people, are in serious decline. The authors of a study released Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined 4,713 fisheries, accounting for 78 percent of the world’s annual catch, and found that only a third were in decent biological shape. But there is good news: It is possible to reverse this trend, and in a surprisingly short amount of time.”
- Clemson economist predicts flat growth through 2017, S.C. Public Radio, March 31, 2016
Clemson’s Bruce Yandle says the national economy will continue to limp along, and so will South Carolina’s. Click here to listen to an interview with the economist.
- 14 million U.S. citizens live in extreme poverty, CNN, March 31, 2016
More than twice as many Americans live in extremely poor neighborhoods as in 2000, with three times as many now living in concentrated suburban poverty.
- American textile companies are innovating, The New York Times, April 1, 2016
Even some South Carolina textile companies, hard hit by change in the early 2000s, are turning to technology to fuel growth in the traditional S.C. industrial sector.
- Almost 2/3 of U.S. labor force doesn’t have college degree, Economic Policy Institute, March 30, 2016
“Almost two-thirds of people in the labor force (65.1 percent) do not have a college degree. In fact, non-college educated people make up the majority of the labor force in every state but the District of Columbia.”
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