{"id":6750,"date":"2017-11-03T22:39:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T03:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/?p=6750"},"modified":"2017-11-03T22:39:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T03:39:56","slug":"economic-development-summit-with-governor-john-bel-edwards-9-november-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2017\/11\/03\/economic-development-summit-with-governor-john-bel-edwards-9-november-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Development Summit with Governor John Bel Edwards (9 November 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday (9 November 2017) from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM,\u00a0citizens from across the state of Louisiana will meet with Gov. Edwards and other public officials for a conversation about changing the narrative of economic development in Louisiana to focus on investment in US &#8212; schools, jobs, infrastructure, and more.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.togetherla.org\/20171026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6752\" src=\"http:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/TogetherLouisiana.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/TogetherLouisiana.png 800w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/TogetherLouisiana-300x285.png 300w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/TogetherLouisiana-768x729.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Governor Edwards has made changes to our state&#8217;s economic development policies as significant as any in the last 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>These changes have the potential to represent a historic shift in our state&#8217;s philosophy and culture of economic development &#8212; from one oriented more toward corporate subsidies to one based on shared prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>For that shift to achieve its full potential, this new direction must be supported, deepened, and institutionalized.<\/p>\n<p>This meeting will be hosted by <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ubc-br.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University Baptist Church<\/a> (<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/University+Baptist+Church\/@30.3925188,-91.1571205,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8626a68ccb78edc3:0xf6ae43a812f55771!8m2!3d30.3925188!4d-91.1549318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5775 Highland Avenue, Baton Rouge LA\u00a0 70808<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Lunch included with $5.00 contribution &#8212; <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.togetherla.org\/20171026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Register online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday (9 November 2017) from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM,\u00a0citizens from across the state of Louisiana will meet with Gov. Edwards and other public officials for a conversation about changing the narrative of economic development in Louisiana to focus on investment in US &#8212; schools, jobs, infrastructure, and more. Governor Edwards has made changes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2017\/11\/03\/economic-development-summit-with-governor-john-bel-edwards-9-november-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Economic Development Summit with Governor John Bel Edwards (9 November 2017)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-social-justice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/TogetherLouisiana.png","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6753,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750\/revisions\/6753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}