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EIG’s leadership is drawn from a wide array of backgrounds: policy experts, start-up founders, investors, and academics. What they share is a commitment to creating a more dynamic and innovative ...

As the first phase of the Tech Hubs program, the Economic Development Administration (EDA) announced the designation of 31 regional technology hubs. Designation confers prestige and signaling power, ...

Newly released Census data shows that remote work has increased unevenly across the United States. The highest rate of remote work is in Washington, DC, where 33.6% of the population worked remotely ...

Donald Trump won two presidential elections by promising to put American workers first. On the eve of the 2026 midterms, halfway through his second stint in the White House, how do American workers ...

Manufacturing employment in the United States has surpassed its pre-pandemic levels, the first time since the 1970s that the sector has regained all the jobs it lost in a recession. Yet its recovery ...

The novelty of the OZ mechanism has ushered in a new generation of research as scholars race to grade the policy. Historically, researchers have found little lasting economic impact from legacy “zone” ...

Three-quarters of American voters support increasing high-skilled immigration (HSI), with widespread approval across the entire political spectrum and in every presidential swing state. That’s ...

Major cities experienced historic rates of population loss in 2021, with 68 percent of large urban counties seeing a decline in population. One factor in this historic outmigration was the rise of ...

American economic dynamism has been in decline for most of the 21st century, and several decades prior, according to a new paper by Ufuk Akcigit of the University of Chicago, NBER, and CEPR, Sina Ates ...

Just in time to inform governors’ work nominating the next round of Opportunity Zone (OZ) census tracts this summer, the Treasury Department has released new data reporting that federal OZ tax ...

The 2025 Reconciliation Act, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), calls on governors to act in summer 2026 by nominating one-quarter of their low-income census tracts for Opportunity ...