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Kurre: GE layoffs 'a bitter pill to swallow'

Layoffs at GE Transportation, the largest employer in Erie County, could raise the county's unemployment rate by 0.6 percent, said Jim Kurre, professor of economics at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, and director of the Economic Research Institute of Erie.
Behrend Students Take Reins of $100K Investment Fund

Behrend Students Take Reins of $100K Investment Fund

The best way to teach business students to be prudent with investments is to give them some real money to spend.

“When you’re working with a mock portfolio and you mess up, there’s no damage done,” said Vincent Intrieri, a 1984 graduate of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. “But when it’s real money, with real consequences, you focus. You can’t explain it away, saying, ‘Oh, well. My model didn’t work so well.’”