For decades, the Midwest was known as the industrial heartland of the nation, and the place where the goods, tools and machinery that drove the U.S. economy were produced. But, as...
Using data gathered by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the following study focused on U.S. metropolitan areas with populations of less than 1...
The C.D.C. strongly advises reducing population density, in order to slow the spread of COVID-19 and allow our healthcare system the time to take this issue on successfully. We...
Washington D.C. landed fourth, with a total score of 55.7 points. D.C. boasts an impressively diverse economy, in which 12% of jobs are in STEM occupations. 42% of these jobs are...
In 2016, Antoine van Agtmael and Fred Bakker, authors of “The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation,” commented on the current...
The “bikeshare bonanza,” as Forbes put it, is something all communities should get behind. Our 25-city survey conducted earlier this year revealed that most urban residents...
Ever since Gordon Gekko uttered his now infamous credo, “greed is good,” many economists have been concerned with the long-term effects of the growing income inequality...