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A recent editorial by Rick Killion of Prairie Business Magazine discusses the future prospects of the heartland and features the Praxis Strategy Group-authored report: "Rebuilding America's Productive Economy - A Heartland Development Strategy."

Killion writes: "Joel Kotkin, senior fellow at the New America Foundation, and Delore Zimmerman, president of Praxis Strategy Group, released a 34-page white paper on November 9 at the NDSU Research & Technology Park in Fargo. Kotkin is one of those national figures on TV and other influential media outlets who have embraced the Plains states and rural America.
Zimmerman heads up a company he founded in Grand Forks, ND.

The two men have observed in "Rebuilding Americaís Productive Economy - Heartland Development Strategy" that the United States is headed from 300 million to 400 million citizens in the next four decades. They examine the trends of advancing development in "micropolitan" areas of the nation, with many of them near ëgrowth nodesí that include Fargo, Sioux Falls, Rapid City, Des Moines, Bozeman, and Boise."