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Regional Performance Over Time: Thriving and Reviving Amid Economic Challenges
What factors distinguish cities that can withstand an economic downturn, or rebound afterward, from
those that cannot? Are these factors unique to successful cities, or are there best practices that can be adopted by peer cities?
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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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California's Solutions to Health Care
As Congress and the Executive Branch continue to debate how healthcare should work in America, bus
inesses in California are creating local, innovative solutions that you probably don't yet know about.
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Sustainable Solutions For a Green Future
California, the country’s most populous, diverse and economically dynamic state, is in the midst o
f a transformation to turn its economy into a leading global incubator for renewable energy and resiliency solutions.
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Alternative Small Business Financing: Keeping California on Top and Sharing the Wealth
Small businesses in California employ nearly half of the state's private workforce but lack the ca
pital to grow. Though a recovery is underway, access to money has grown more acute since the Great Recession.
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Big Cities, Big Data: How Smart Cities Improve Lives & Save Money
From homelessness and housing to pensions to public safety, more California cities are using sophi
sticated data analytics to help solve their biggest problems.
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Immigration and the California Economy
As immigration policy has become an urgent policy item in the United States and Europe, California
finds itself caught squarely in the middle of competing economic and political agendas.
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Green Gold: Californias New Cash Crop
California, already the nation’s largest producer of medical marijuana – a $7 billion industry – i
s poised to become the largest recreational marijuana market in the world.
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