Having It All: How Linking Purpose and Profit Drives Your Business to the Next Level


  • March 23, 2018
  • /   Rachael Gillette
  • /   training-development,studer-community-institute,entrecon,economy,quint studer

PYP Quality of Life survey 2017


  • September 6, 2017
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   economy
More people in Escambia County and in the City of Pensacola feel that things are heading in the right direction than they did last year — and there more room for improvement.

Seeing the PreK investment as economic development


  • May 26, 2017
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   economy
Early learning is an investment that saves public money in the long term — something that should appeal to folks of all political stripes.

Holiday shoppers boost sales, jobs in Pensacola area


  • November 25, 2016
  • /   Phyllis Pooley/CREO
  • /   economy
Tourists are a big economic boom for the Pensacola area, but holiday sales still lead the pack for economic impact, says UWF's Phyllis Pooley.

Where is Pensacola's


  • October 7, 2016
  • /   Phyllis Pooley/CREO
  • /   economy
Now the digital divide seems to be falling alone income level, a factor most often influenced by education, employment and, sadly enough, race or gender, writes UWF's Phyllis Pooley.

Economic uncertainty filters through Pensacola, state


  • September 12, 2016
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   economy
Economic uncertainty is a reality that local — and state — leaders will have to deal with to improve Pensacola's quality of life.

What will PYP's 2016 Quality of Life Survey reveal?


  • September 5, 2016
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   economy
Since the PYP Quality of Life survey began, it has reflected an ambivalence in the community. That this is a great place to live — but not for everybody.

Cox Business wants entrepreneurs to Get Started


  • September 2, 2016
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   economy
Local entrepreneurs and small business owners can win a $20,000 prize package, build their network at Cox’s Get Started Pensacola on Nov. 2.

Nearly a third of Florida businesses are young


  • September 1, 2016
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   economy
In Florida, data show that 37 percent of businesses are five years old or younger, according to the Census Bureau's Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs.

Escambia new business starts lag Santa Rosa, state


  • September 1, 2016
  • /   Allison Tyler Romer, UWF Haas Center
  • /   economy
UWF's Haas Center researcher finds relatively few new business births in the years following the Great Recession of 2007–09—particularly in the Pensacola area.