The New Republic discusses what’s known as the Cleveland Conundrum. We export a lot, but we aren’t exporting the right stuff. Read on…
The Cleveland metro is an export powerhouse. Exporting industries employed more than 110,000 of the region’s workers as of 2008 (over 10 percent), and its economy is among the nation’s most export intensive.
So, if exports will be, and must be, a critical component of economic growth in the future (which is one of the messages of the new Export Nation report), Cleveland, and the other Great Lakes metros that are also intensely export oriented, are pretty well positioned, right?
Find out the rest @ http://TNR.com/blog/the-avenue/76650/the-cleveland-conundrum.
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