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 ...

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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 ...

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” ...

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.

New county level population growth data reveal that 2021 marked a clear break from past trends, not a continuation of them. The patterns of growth are consistent with remote work being an important ...

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 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 ...

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 ...