Bill Schweke, Senior Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Enterprise & Economic Development
Bill Schweke retired from CFED in 2011 after nearly 30 years of service to the organization. As a Senior Fellow in CFED’s Durham office, Mr. Schweke contributed his expertise in development finance, small business initiatives and local development. His work spanned a variety of contexts, including providing technical assistance to state and local governments, developing urban neighborhood development initiatives and designing training courses on rural development, community economic development and local development planning.
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Most Recent Blog Posts
Sep 29, 2011
Journalist Don Peck has just written one of the most important books yet published on the Great Recession
Sep 19, 2011
While cleaning up my office, I ran across a lecture, authored by Professor Edward (Ned) Hill, that I embarrassingly never read
Sep 14, 2011
Diana Mutz’s book, “Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy”
Aug 31, 2011
The American economic picture remains very grim. The recovery from the Great Recession can only be called “tepid”
Jul 27, 2011
The world of economic development has changed dramatically in the past few decades. After being virtually synonymous with
Apr 25, 2011
Like most economic development professionals, my metric of success is more akin to a decent baseball batting average
Apr 5, 2011
Progressive policymakers and advocates have been pining for a book that maps the “high road” to a more democratic
Apr 1, 2011
Practical Action, based in Great Britain, is the successor organization to
Mar 15, 2011
“Every person of full age neither owning nor having owned 50 acres of land, shall be entitled to an appropriation of 50 acres or so much as shall make up what he owns or has owned 50 acres in full and absolute dominion . . .
Mar 4, 2011
At this juncture of a painfully slow recovery from a major recession, there remains a massive job gap in the U.S. The Upjohn Institute for Employment Research argues that if the country is to restore the employment to population ratio to the level it was in December, 2007, the American economy must create 320,000 net new jobs per month for five years.
Feb 17, 2011
The W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research has continued doing much appreciated work in publishing leading-edge scholarly, but useful research with three new books and the findings from a recent conference. Let’s start with the books.
Feb 15, 2011
If the reader has any interest in the Great Recession and reads books, not just articles, he or she would have been struck by the virtual avalanche of books on the subject. I have probably read a dozen, as well as read some refresher pieces on Keynes, macroeconomics, history of Wall Street, and so forth. There are some great journalistic articles and scholarly tomes and lots of great stories out there.
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