The day culminated with EIG editorial director Cardiff Garcia taking the stage alongside former Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb ...

Redder parts of the country are doing better, and Purple Metros — metropolitan areas where nearly equal numbers of residents voted Republican and Democratic in the 2024 presidential election — have ...

Welcome to the Distressed Communities Index (DCI). Your interactive guide to the wellbeing of American communities.

There are a variety of estimates of the share of the workforce that is remote, and these sources have differences owing to sampling methods, coverage universe, and other measurement issues. Last week, ...

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” ...

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 ...

Across the country this year, numerous state legislatures have worked to pass laws freeing employees from noncompete clauses — contractual arrangements that bar employees from taking new jobs with ...

Too much research on remote work treats it as one uniform category of working. Although full-remote and hybrid work may seem fairly similar, the differences of their economic impacts are substantial.

The United States has benefited tremendously from skilled immigration. Newcomers have long accounted for outsized shares of new startups and patents and, by one estimate, were responsible for 30 to 50 ...

For the first time since the Great Recession, the richest metro areas are no longer creating the majority of new jobs in the U.S. The weakening of their position as the country’s primary engines of ...