COVID-19 Trends

COVID-19 Trends

Exploring the impact on Main Streets

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Blog Series

The COVID-19 Trends Blog Series, authored by Matthew Wagner, Ph.D., Vice President of Revitalization Programs, delves into how the pandemic is impacting downtowns and neighborhood commercial districts and explores the challenges and opportunities arising from the crisis.

Beyond COVID - Workforce as the Next Big Challenge for Main Streets

September 9, 2021 | Place professionals and those engaged with small businesses have been seeing first-hand the challenges of hiring and retaining labor in this early post-vaccine rollout era. Trends show that these issues have been caused by factors ranging from continued health and safety concerns to a dramatic movement of entry-level labor from retail and restaurants to supply chain-related jobs. Stacked against 20,000 new jobs from Wal-Mart and over $20 starting salaries plus $2,000 starting bonuses from Amazon, what can place professionals and small business owners do to be competitive? 

In this post, Matthew Wagner, Ph.D., Chief Program Officer at Main Street America, provides key guidance on how Main Street programs can use their creativity as an opportunity to create a new competitive position for what labor is seeking beyond a wage war.

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Archive

Main Street: A Place for a More Connected Economy in a World of Dispersion- August 4, 2021

Get Used to It - The Pivot Is Not Going Away - July 7, 2021

Five Takeaways on Supporting Entrepreneurship - June 29, 2021

COVID Lesson: We Need to Build Stronger Entrepreneurial Ecosystems - April 26, 2021

Pop-Up Retail: Not Just For Start-Ups, And Other Learnings From Its Evolution - February 11, 2021

Jump off the Business Recruitment Train: The Real Returns are in Cultivating Local Entrepreneurship - January 14, 2021

Holiday Shopping During COVID: What Should Main Streets Expect? - August 26, 2020

Small Business COVID Resiliency: 12 Ways to Reimagine Your Business Model - August 6, 2020

COVID-19 and the Impact of Retail: Part 2 - July 2, 2020

COVID-19 Trends and the Impact on Retail - June 30, 2020

How Rural Economies Can Leverage the Rise in Remote Work - June 18, 2020

COVID-19 Likely to Result in Increased Entrepreneurship Rates - June 9, 2020

Recovery and Revitalization Depend on Understanding Human Psyche - May 12, 2020

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