US statistical agencies deserve support and funding. They also need to reform.
A Q&A with John Haltiwanger| Agglomerations
A Q&A with John Haltiwanger| Agglomerations
Lessons from our new report on Ohio’s high-tech workforce.| Agglomerations
The United States is riding high on a long period of exceptional economic growth.| agglomerations.substack.com
A recent viral chart from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the labor market prospects of recent college graduates has sparked a steady flow of in-depth reporting and thinkpieces over the last few months about the future of STEM education, the effects of AI on labor markets, and even high-skilled immigration.| Agglomerations
New analysis finds no clear signs of disruption…yet.| agglomerations.substack.com
After decades of decline, American dynamism is making a comeback.| agglomerations.substack.com
Deindustrialization is not destiny| agglomerations.substack.com
But flatlining growth has not reversed massive pandemic-era population losses.| Agglomerations
Learning from DC and other Downtowns| Agglomerations
A few years after he invented the laser, Theodore H Maiman was still tinkering with its potential uses in medicine and other fields.| Agglomerations
The last two weeks have yielded a series of blows to the United States’ ability to attract and retain top talent from abroad.| Agglomerations
Kenan Fikri is a senior fellow at the Economic Innovation Group.| Agglomerations
“American steelworkers, auto workers, farmers and skilled craftsmen… They watched in anguish as foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American dream.” — President Donald Trump announcing his tariff strategy in a Rose Garden| Agglomerations
How To Know if Trump's Tariff Strategy is Actually Working| Agglomerations
It takes a special kind of economic logic to look at a state-of-the-art automotive manufacturing facility and see a plot to harm America’s economic and security interests.| Agglomerations
The big idea in “Abundance,” the new book from Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, is that if we want more stuff — more housing, better healthcare, cleaner energy — we need to clear away the dense thicket of bureaucratic impediments that block the production of that stuff.| Agglomerations
In early March, President Trump first proposed a “Gold Card Visa” for high-net-worth individuals to immigrate to the United States, with a suggested price tag of $5 million.| Agglomerations
Every now and then, a debate resurfaces about the flaws of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a measure of the economy.| Agglomerations
The following piece features key findings from a new working paper on the effects of Opportunity Zones on U.S. housing.| Agglomerations
There was no way to know, during the peak pandemic days of 2020, whether the observed spike in entrepreneurial activity that year was a real trend.| agglomerations.substack.com
Critics of high-skilled immigration like to portray temporary student visas as a source of cheap labor, making it easy for employers to undercut the wages of American workers.| agglomerations.substack.com
