Word: biotech
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Every year, 25 to 30 low-income people get jobs in entry-level biotech, and their income goes up an average of $10,000,” said Alice K. Wolf, a state representative for Cambridge and the chief sponsor for the Biomedical Careers Training program. “It’s a wonderful program and I’m very distressed about [the cuts...
...same time, the investment-friendly biotech industry is blossoming with the official opening on Monday of the North Carolina Research Center in Kannapolis, just 30 minutes from downtown Charlotte. The public-private partnership is the vision of David Murdock, the billionaire owner of Dole Food Company and Castle & Cooke. Estimates are that eventually the campus will create 5,500 biotech jobs locally and 37,000 related jobs across the region. More than symbolic, the NCRC stands on the grounds of a former textile mill, Pillowtex, which closed in 2003 with a loss of nearly 5,000 jobs...
...writes in his book, is the creation of green-collar jobs that provide working-class employment, shield America from rising fossil fuel prices and stem carbon emissions. These are not the high-tech, high-education "George Jetson" jobs, as Jones puts it, that were created by the Internet and biotech booms. Green-collar jobs include manufacturing solar panels, insulating green homes, servicing wind turbines. These are jobs that can be filled by blue-collar workers who need jobs - and they help the environment to boot. "You can put the country back to work with green solutions that are good...
...This man was a member of Democratic Governor’s Association, the Midwest Governor’s Association, the Governor’s Ethanol Coalition, and the Governor’s Biotech Partnership. He refuses to join any groups that don’t have the word “Governor” in their titles...
...long-term goal is to harness the real power of Boston that no place in the world can compete with,” Ingber said. “The ability to interact with faculty across Harvard, its hospitals and its neighboring universities, the big pharmaceutical companies and biotech start-ups, the IT companies—Boston...