Charles North, president and CEO of the Dutchess County Chamber of Commerce, attributed the growth in hiring there to expansion at area universities and hospitals.
The growth in Manchester was also welcomed by the city's Chamber of Commerce, whose research manager Christian Spence said it could "boost the tourism, retail and hospitality sectors and result in further increases in investment in these areas".
In neighboring Fort Myers, Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Colleen DePasquale says job growth may in part be seasonal, because the population always swells in the winter months, and two baseball teams, the Twins and the Red Sox, go to Fort Myers for spring training.
During the debate on Wednesday 25 January 2012 Finance Secretary John Swinney told the chamber the Scottish government's budget was "focused on growth".
On average, revenue growth slowed to 6%, down 30% from 2011, the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai said Thursday in their China Business Report.
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Informing new members and reminding old of the benefits of exports to U.S. businesses and workers is clearly a worthwhile objective of the Chamber, the business community, and really anybody interested in economic growth.
Expiration of the tax cuts would affect capital gains and dividends as well as individual income tax rates, and both the Chamber and NAM argue that allowing taxes to rise would be disastrous for economic growth.
Speaking to the Sunday Politics show in the West Midlands, Jane Gratton, from the North Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce said the proposed route failed to take into account of future population growth .
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Last week, at the jobs summit, Chamber of Commerce CEO said, if you really want to create jobs, increase economic growth, you temporarily extend the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts -- temporarily -- versus the President is only calling for an extension of your middle-class tax cuts.
James Ramsbotham, chief executive of the North East Chamber of Commerce, said an action plan should now be developed to "kick start" economic growth.
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