Milken Institute Research - California Center

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California

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Sustainable Energy Future

Understanding Financial Markets

Capital Access and Job Formation


California Center

California Center

Scott Minerd, chief investment officer at Guggenheim, introduces outgoing Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton at the 2009 State of the State Conference. Minerd is chairman of the Milken Institute California Center, which organizes the annual conference.

California is the world’s eighth-largest economy, but it faces serious challenges, including an aging infrastructure, population growth, a burgeoning unskilled and undereducated labor force, a struggling K-12 educational system and an unfriendly business climate.

The California Center is dedicated to measuring, evaluating and analyzing the state's economic, demographic and social conditions and trends. We propose innovative ideas that will help ensure California's long-term prosperity and help business and government leaders maintain the state's leadership in key industries while improving the quality of life for its residents.

The Milken Institute California Center specializes in:

creating market-based solutions that promote job growth and increase access to capital for minority and small-business owners, start-ups and new technologies
bringing together the state's leaders in business, government and academia to explore new solutions to California's challenges in forums, workshops and the State of the State Conference
evaluating the state's economic climate, development prospects and sustainable technology clusters in areas that include infrastructure, health care, clean technology, housing and international trade

For more information, view a summary of the California Center.

Contacts:
Ross DeVol
Executive Director, Economic Research
rdevol@milkeninstitute.org

Kevin Klowden
Director, California Center
kklowden@milkeninstitute.org


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