Ercwc.org
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ERC - Home Page
Description
The Education and Research Consortium's mission is to further economic development in the Western Carolinas through education, infrastructure and capital development.
In the past three years, the fifteen counties that comprise the 11 th Congressional district of western North Carolina (WNC) have experienced a net loss of nearly 6,000 largely old line manufacturing jobs. This represents nearly 10% of all manufacturing jobs in the district. In the early 1990s, WNC's per capita income was 4% below the per capita income of the North Carolina piedmont and the gap has now widened to 6%. The per capita income is vital to WNC because it undergirds the quality of life of our citizens.
The trend in America, as well as in WNC, is for old line manufacturing jobs to move to third world countries. As we begin the 21
Languages
English
Contact
- ERC of Western Carolina
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- Asheville NC
- United States 28801
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- +1.82828119
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