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No coordinated economic game plan... the missing ingredient is leadership

Submitted by: John Warner on Jun 16, 2009 at 8:19 am Tagged with: Economic Development Source: Greenville News

Excerpts from an article in the Greenville News

South Carolina is courting economic peril in standing still during the recession without a coordinated effort to attack rising joblessness and the underlying problems of a slipping industrial foundation and falling incomes, according to economists and economic development experts....

Rex Carter, former speaker of the SC House, “I don't see any game plan, to be honest with you”....

Harris DeLoach, president and chief executive officer of Hartsville-based Sonoco and former chairman of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, said the missing ingredient is leadership....

Bruce Yandle, dean emeritus of Clemson University's College of Business and Behavioral Science, said he doesn't “know of any group – a respect-commanding group – that wants to create a vision for South Carolina going forward....

Former Gov. and U.S. Secretary of Education Dick Riley, “our future as a nation depends on our commitment to ensuring that every student — not just the select few — achieves far higher levels of math and science learning”...