Dr. John Stapleford, taking over as CRIs new President, spoke to Dace Blaskovitz on "Money and Politics in Delaware" about his new role as CRIs president and on what was going on with the states economy. The show airs Saturdays from 9-10 on WILM.com 1450 AM and WDOV.com 1410 AM. Cli...
Read MoreThe Liberty Foundation of Oklahoma (http://libertyfound.org/) today released data on the labor force participation rates from 1999 through 2013 for all states. The trends in Delaware are disturbing (click on the link below for the depressing statistics). The participation in the labor force b...
Read MoreThe attached article appeared in the Delaware Business Times edition January 6, 2015. Johns article is on Pages 4-5. He summarizes 2014 state economic data and makes projections for 2015.
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Retail trade in northern Delaware seems to be in a funk. Between 2007 and 2014 total inflation-adjusted retail sales in New Castle County decreased 11%. Retail trade employment is down by over 7% and the total number of retail trade establishments has dropped by almost 11%. What explains this...
Read MoreA Review of Gabel Associates, Inc. Report, “Benefit Cost Analysis for Electric Vehicle Adoption in the Delaware DPL Territory” David T. Stevenson, Policy Director November 23, 2018 Revised 12/12/2018 WWW.CaesarRodney.org Tabl...
Read MoreWith a budget battle about to begin, what does the data suggest as the direction Delaware should take? Let’s start with a quick look back and compare the year 2005 to the year 2015. Since 2005 Delaware has added a total of 12,000 jobs. This is an employment growth r...
Read MoreThis article first appeared at Delawareonline.com on November 18, 2015, and in the News Journal November 19, 2015. As noted by The News Journal, a recent report by the Center for Public Integrity and Global integrity rated Delaware State Government as 48th among the states in accountability...
Read MoreThis article originally appeared on Delawareonline.com on October 11, 2015, and in the News Journal October 12, 2015. Despite their coordinated public relations splash on The News Journal’s Opinion pages, both Sen. Coons and Gov. Markell demonstrated a surprising lack of knowledge...
Read MoreOverall, Delaware has the 14th best 2015 business tax climate according to the Tax Foundation. Even more important, as jobs are far more likely to move between contiguous states, Delaware’s tax climate is far better than surrounding states in the region (see the tabe available in the download ...
Read MoreThis article originally appeared in the News Journal and at delawareonline.com. The total inflation adjusted output of goods and services in Delaware rose a mere 0.6% over the past 10 years. This contrasts to 8.2% in Pennsylvania, 16.6% in New York, 34.3% in Texas, and 12.1% across the nati...
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