Parks make great places, but not enough Americans can reach them
By Joseph Kane, Adie TomerSummer offers a time to relax and recharge, and that often includes a chance to connect with nature. Getting outside in the warmer months reminds us how important green space is to our individual health and community well-being, especially for city and suburban residents who may be more detached from nature….
Trump reverses himself on tax cut ideas
‘Gradual’ economic slowdown predicted through 2023
Trump team braces GOP donors for a potential ‘moderate and short’ recession
The White House is weighing cuts to corporate and payroll taxes, among other measures, to cushion the U.S. economy if an election-year recession hits.
How Memphis, Tennessee is transforming its riverfront to work for all
By Carol Coletta The storied Mississippi River is at its widest and wildest in Memphis. Rising and falling 55 feet a year, the river is the city’s birth place. It runs alongside the city’s historic downtown, serves as a global hub for trade and transportation, and connects residents to industry and opportunity. But despite the…
Trump’s top economic advisers try to calm recession fears
Trump accuses news media of trying to crash the economy
Exports provide firms a path into the middle market
By Jeanine Duncliffe Despite often being overlooked amid the appeal of scrappy entrepreneurs and mammoth multi-national companies, middle market firms (with $10 million – $1 billion in annual revenue) are work horses of job creation, innovation, and savvy adaptation in local economies. Middle market activity fosters dense industry clusters, wage growth, and workforce specialization. Hungry…
Broadband is too important for this many in the US to be disconnected
By Lara Fishbane, Adie Tomer For the vast majority of us, broadband has become so commonplace in our professional, personal, and social lives that we rarely think about how much we depend on it. Yet without broadband, our lives would be radically upended: Our work days would look different, we would spend our leisure time…
The end of Kansas-Missouri’s border war should mark a new chapter for both states’ economies
By Amy Liu This week, Governor Kelly of Kansas and Governor Parson of Missouri signed a joint agreement to end the longstanding economic border war between their two states. For years, Kansas and Missouri taxpayers subsidized the shuffling of jobs across the state line that runs down the middle of the Kansas City metro area,…
How Buttigieg would address rural economic issues
Wall Street sees risk of recession rising
Stocks are slipping and fears of a slowdown are mounting as Trump ramps up his reelection efforts.