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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 ...

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” ...

Zoning reform has historically been treated as a matter for state and local authorities alone. Under the constitutional framework established by the Tenth Amendment and the 1926 Supreme Court case ...

The resurgence of industrial policy in the U.S. is perhaps the most consequential—and also most daunting—when it comes to semiconductor manufacturing. The focus of policy on this sector is ...

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 ...

Summary: Manufacturing construction activity has exploded in the Mountain West over the past two years, beating all other regions in terms of value put in place in 2022. The collection of eight ...

The country's business startup rate, measuring the share of all firms that form each year, ticked up to 8.9 percent in 2021—the highest share since the Great Recession. In total, more than 476,000 new ...

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, ...

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 ...

Left-behind counties in the United States have just experienced their strongest three-year period of job creation and business growth since the turn of the 21st century. Despite their vigorous ...

The pandemic had a silver lining: it partially rekindled the U.S. economy’s famed—but more recently flagging—dynamism. Economic dynamism in the average state rose to a 13-year high in the latest ...