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Open Data in California: Why the State Needs a Unified Strategy for Public Information
For as long as there have been governments, there has been government data.
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Career Technical Education: Reducing Wage Inequality and Sustaining California’s Innovation-Based Economy
Income distribution in the U.S. and California has become far less equal since about 1980.
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State Technology and Science Index 2016: California Perspectives
The Milken Institute’s State Technology and Science Index (STSI) series benchmarks states
on their science and technology capacity.
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The Supply Side: Defining a Pathway for Increasing California’s Housing Development Opportunities
Californians face an unprecedented challenge finding affordable housing.
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The CEQA Labyrinth: Fixing the Flaws in a Good Law
Passed in 1970, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is the state’s broadest environment
al law.
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Regional Performance Over Time Case Study: The Bend-Redmond, Ore. Metropolitan Statistical Area
How a region copes with economic challenges is as important to its long-term prosperity as how it g
rows in good times.
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Best-Performing Cities 2022
Cities continue to drive economic growth across the nation. They are the primary locations where bu
sinesses create new jobs and workers earn higher wages, keeping the United States competitive in the global economy.
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Understanding and Identifying Gaps in Employer Mental Health Resources
About 60 million Americans live with mental health conditions, and nearly half of those go without
treatment. The COVID-19 pandemic widened the gap between employers and employees on mental health in the workplace.
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State Technology and Science Index 2022
The State Technology and Science Index (STSI) provides a benchmark for evaluating the knowledge eco
nomies of all 50 US states.
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Sharing the Cost: Accelerating Water Resilience through Infrastructure Finance in California
Beyond the intensifying drought and widening infrastructure inefficiencies, there are billions of d
ollars worth of unmet operation and maintenance costs and system improvements currently to be found in the State Water Project and Central Valley Project,
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Policy Brief: Improving Women, Infants, and Children’s Access to Food and Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
To address the impact that the COVID-19 virus is having on food access, this issue brief highlights
recent policies and puts forward a recommendation to ensure that the over 6 million individuals who participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Pro
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Best-Performing Cities and Microbusiness Activity: Exploring Policy Implications of Online Economies
This report combines results from the Best-Performing Cities 2022 (BPC) index and GoDaddy’s Microbu
siness Activity Index (MAI), examining what may be happening in the economies of a selection of cities in the two rankings.
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