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Investing in America: Reauthorization of the Economic Development Administration

Witness List Dennis Alvord, Acting Assistant Secretary for Economic Development, U.S. Department of Commerce Lisa Cooper, Executive Director, Northern Kentucky Area Development District; on behalf of the National Association of Development...
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Dan Carol

Senior Director, Milken Institute Finance
Dan Carol is a senior director on the Milken Institute Finance team. He leads Institute programming to accelerate effective deployment and financing of community-scale and climate resilient infrastructure, scale up regional innovation, and scale-up public-private partnerships.
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With Broadband Access Expanding Nationally, Milken Institute Best-Performing Cities and Microbusiness Activity Report Looks at the Keys to Support Local Business Growth

LOS ANGELES, CA (October 18, 2022) — According to the Milken Institute’s Best-Performing Cities and Microbusiness Activity report, expanding broadband infrastructure can have a pivotal role in promoting economic opportunities and unleashing...
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Chad Clinton

Director, Media Relations
Chad Clinton is the director of media relations for the Milken Institute. Hired to this role in August 2021, Clinton develops and executes strategies to amplify the Institute’s core messages by generating coverage of its pillar workstreams, experts, and events.

The Milken Institute’s Community Explorer Tool Offers New, In-Depth County-Level Demographic, Socio-Economic Data to Help Inform Policy Development

WASHINGTON, DC (October 18, 2022) — The Milken Institute announced the release of its Community Explorer, an interactive tool that drills down into various demographic and socio-economic data to help inform policy discussions around housing...
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Chad Clinton

Director, Media Relations
Chad Clinton is the director of media relations for the Milken Institute. Hired to this role in August 2021, Clinton develops and executes strategies to amplify the Institute’s core messages by generating coverage of its pillar workstreams, experts, and events.
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Milken Institute Feeding Change Commitment of Support for the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health

Washington, D.C. – September 28, 2022 – Feeding Change, a program of the Milken Institute, commits to convening its private sector Food Is Medicine (FIM) Task Force to elevate, accelerate, and scale coverage and implementation of a range of...
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Holly Freishtat

Senior Director, Feeding Change, Milken Institute Health
Holly Freishtat is the senior director of Feeding Change at the Milken Institute. She is an experienced director, transformative leader, and strategist with a 20-year track record developing and implementing food system policies and programs.

Small Business Administration (SBA) on Regulatory Burden Docket

Submitted electronically Ms. Holly Turner Regulatory Reform Officer U.S. Small Business Administration 409 Third Street, SW Washington, DC 20416 The Milken Institute (the Institute) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank determined to...
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Kevin Klowden

Executive Director, Milken Institute Finance
Kevin Klowden is the executive director of Milken Institute Finance. He specializes in the study of key factors that underlie the development of competitive regional economies (clusters of innovation, patterns of trade and investment, and concentration of skilled labor) and how these are influenced by public policy and, in turn, affect regional economies both globally and nationally.

Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Request for Information

Submitted electronically The Honorable Diana DeGette US House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Fred Upton US House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Representatives DeGette and Upton, FasterCures is pleased...
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Esther Krofah

Executive Vice President, Milken Institute Health
Esther Krofah is the executive vice president of Milken Institute Health, leading FasterCures, Public Health, the Future of Aging, and Feeding Change. She has extensive experience managing efforts to unite diverse stakeholders to solve critical issues and achieve shared goals that improve patients’ lives.

Best-Performing Cities 2022

Cities continue to drive economic growth across the nation. They are the primary locations where businesses create new jobs and workers earn higher wages, keeping the United States competitive in the global economy. However, metro areas are...
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Provo-Orem, Utah Tops Milken Institute’s 2022 Ranking of Best-Performing Cities for Second Year in a Row

Ashville, NC, and San Luis Obispo, CA, fall sharply from 2021 rankings; Logan, Utah, is No. 1 among small US cities. Los Angeles – March 28, 2022 – Provo-Orem, Utah, for the second consecutive year, has demonstrated the best economic...
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Chad Clinton

Director, Media Relations
Chad Clinton is the director of media relations for the Milken Institute. Hired to this role in August 2021, Clinton develops and executes strategies to amplify the Institute’s core messages by generating coverage of its pillar workstreams, experts, and events.