This report analyzes fundamental demographic and employment trends that are changing our nation’s workforce and seem certain to continue long beyond the ongoing recovery from the recent deep recession.
California is poised to pass Italy and the Russian Federation and become the world’s eighth-largest economy in 2013.
California is poised to pass Italy and the Russian Federation and become the world’s eighth-largest economy in 2013.
This report provides an updated and expanded view of charter school performance in the United States.
This report is the successor to Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Demand through 2018, in which we examined the connections between educational attainment and educational demand in the labor market.
When wind or solar energy displace conventional generation, the reduction in emissions varies dramatically across the United States. Although the Southwest has the greatest solar resource, a solar panel in New Jersey displaces significantly more sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter than a panel in Arizona, resulting in 15 times more health and environmental benefits. A wind turbine in West Virginia displaces twice as much carbon dioxide as the same turbine in California.
The 2013 Manufacturing and Logistics National Report shows how each state ranks among its peers in several areas of the economy that underlie the success of manufacturing and logistics.
The purpose of this report is to measure the economic importance of the U.S. shipbuilding and repairing industry.
Starting in the 1970s California’s residential electricity consumption per capita stopped increasing, while other states’ electricity use continued to grow steadily. Similar patterns can be seen in non-electric energy, industry, and transportation. What accounts for California’s apparent energy savings?
The 2013 Manufacturing and Logistics National Report shows how each state ranks among its peers in several areas of the economy that underlie the success of manufacturing and logistics. These specific measures include: manufacturing and logistics industry health, human capital, cost of worker benefits, diversification of the industries, state-level productivity and innovation, expected fiscal liability, tax climate, and global reach.
With an educated and highly skilled workforce, a comprehensive higher education system with distinguished research institutions, and access to public and private funding in the form of research grants and venture capital, California has been and continues to be in a unique position to lead the nation in biotechnology.
Over the past three and a half decades, state and local governments in the United States have awarded corporations more than $64 billion in giant subsidy packages designed to encourage investment and the creation or retention of jobs.
Workers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields play a direct role in driving economic growth. Yet, because of how the STEM economy has been defined, policymakers have mainly focused on supporting workers with at least a bachelor’s (BA) degree, overlooking a strong potential workforce of those with less education but substantial STEM skills.
. . . three tailwinds that typically help drive strong recoveries—investment in housing, consumer confidence, and discretionary fiscal policy—have been absent or turned into headwinds this time.
. . . examines the growing cost to the state of the EZ tax breaks, looks at who receives these breaks, and discusses current proposals to reform the EZ Program, including those contained in Governor Brown’s May Revision of his proposed 2013-14 budget.