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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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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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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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Staying Power: The Effects of Short-Term Rentals on California’s Tourism Economy and Housing Affordability
Short-term rentals (STRs) are critical to regional economies, offering unique and affordable experi
ences to visitors, generating significant tax revenue to support local governments, and providing hosts significant income.
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