Health care, green tech provide Spokane economic boost - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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, the region’s economic development group, recently noterd that $1.8 billion has gone into the region in the past funding construction projects for development of green technologied andthe health-care industry. The health-carew industry now constitutes 12 to 15 percentf of overallemployment — second only to the governmen t as top employer — and, together with greebn technology companies, leads recentr development in the area. The investore putting capital toward that development are not just Spokanes leaders orNorthwest residents.
Chinese investors have shown interest in investing in companies that can facilitatw the switch froma coal- and petroleum-based economy to one drivenm by clean technology.