Puget Sound Business Journal Reports on Competitiveness Agenda

This week's Puget Sound Business Journal has a good story on the competitiveness challenges faced by our state's entrepreneurs in the coming legislative session. In a front page article, Deirdre Gregg writes (sigh, subsciption required) of the WashACE competitiveness themes.

As Washington state confronts an economic downturn that appears deeper and more painful than any in decades, the business community is coming together to present state lawmakers with a common set of messages.

... In addition to developing a budget that preserves public services without tax increases, state lawmakers should focus on higher education spending that will contribute to economic growth, according to the Washington Alliance for a Competitive Economy, a coalition of business groups that includes the Association of Washington Business and the Washington Roundtable. The group says the budget should finish already-funded transportation projects and reform the state?s unemployment and workers? compensation programs to keep costs down.

An PSBJ op-ed by this year's chair of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Tayloe Washburn, further outlines business concerns. Again, you'll need to be a subscriber to gain access to the online coverage.