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Title Date Released
(Year-Month)		 Publication Type
Tire Manufacturing: Southern States Roll to the Top
There has been a great deal of attention in recent years over the 'drive to move South,' i.e., an increasing number of foreign automakers setting up manufacturing facilities and thriving across the Southern United States. While the economic impact of the automobile sector in the South has been reviewed and scrutinized extensively in recent years, there has been less fanfare about a burgeoning sector in the region: the growing importance of tire manufacturing in the SLC states. Only in the last year and a half or so are the media and auto industry analysts realizing that some of the world's largest tire manufacturers are locating, relocating or expanding their operations in the South.		 2013-11 Regional Resource
Workforce Development in the SLC States
Since the end of the Great Recession, there have been encouraging signs that America's manufacturing sector is experiencing a renaissance, albeit a muted one. While growth in the nation's manufacturing sector since the Great Recession remains a very positive development, it also thrusts another challenge to the forefront: creating an adequately trained workforce in the states to staff the increasingly complex positions involved in the 21st century manufacturing process. This SLC Regional Resource examines the efforts made by Southern states to create a skilled workforce with the capacity to staff a broad spectrum of positions in the resurgent manufacturing sector.		 2013-07 Regional Resource
2013 Update on the Panama Canal Expansion and Ports in the Atlantic and Gulf Coast States
The ongoing Panama Canal expansion is perhaps the most transformative global transportation project now in progress. Upon completion in 2014, the expanded Panama Canal will facilitate an even greater flow of trade between Asia and the Americas and will substantially impact the volume of trade reaching Gulf and Atlantic Coast ports in the United States. The impetus for the expansion of the Canal, approved by the people of Panama in October 2006, sprang from that nation's desire to continue as a pivotal player in global trade patterns and strategically leverage its greatest asset – the Panama Canal – for its own economic well-being. This SLC Issue Alert examines the latest developments with regard to the expansion project.		 2013-05 Issue Alert
Healthcare Reform: Exchanges and the Expansion of Medicaid
On June 28, the United States Supreme Court ruled that most of the requirements laid out by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) were Constitutional, including the requirement for states to either establish health insurance exchanges by 2014 or have the federal government do so. Also, while the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could not tie all Medicaid funding to a mandatory expansion, states have the opportunity to increase eligibility levels with an associated federal matching percentage, which will diminish through 2020, when the matching percentage will stabilize at 90 percent. Decisions on implementing a health insurance exchange and expanding Medicaid will be the top public health priorities for states in the upcoming year. States will play a huge role in the implementation of the ACA, and these complicated decisions undoubtedly will have a major impact on state budgets, businesses and individual citizens.This Issue Alert from the Southern Legislative Conference provides an overview of the choices and potential consequences of state decisions.		 2012-10 Issue Alert
Update: The Panama Canal Expansion and the SLC States
The ongoing Panama Canal expansion is perhaps the most transformative global transportation project currently in progress. Upon completion in 2014, the expanded Panama Canal will facilitate an even greater flow of trade between Asia and the Americas and substantially impact the volume of trade reaching Gulf and East Coast ports in the United States. The impetus for the expansion of the Canal, approved by the people of Panama in October 2006, sprang from that nation's desire to continue to be a pivotal player in global trade patterns and strategically leverage its greatest asset – the Panama Canal – for its own economic wellbeing. For the nation of Panama (the only port in the world with terminals in two oceans), the Canal plays an extraordinary role, impacting practically every aspect of society; at the economic level, economic activity flowing from the Canal accounts for nearly 15 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), a clear indication of the enormous economic footprint of the Canal on the nation. The expansion project not only will ensure the Canal's dominance as one of the most critical global transportation linchpins, it also will strengthen the linkages between Asia, the United States and Latin America.		 2012-09 Issue Alert

The Southern Legislative Conference (SLC) of The Council of State Governments was established in 1947 and is composed of the presiding officers and key legislators from 15 Southern states. The SLC is a non-partisan, non-profit organization located in Atlanta, Georgia.

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