Helping communities make the most of historic public investment

Brookings Metro is helping fuel a new generation of investments in inclusive innovation and talent development by chronicling and informing the implementation of programs such as the Economic Development Administration’s Build Back Better Regional Challenge, the Commerce Department’s CHIPS for America Fund and Regional Technology and Innovation Hub program, and the National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines.

Brookings Metro is helping state and local leaders bend infrastructure spending toward more transformative and inclusive priorities by mapping state infrastructure policies and practices that advance economic inclusion and environmental justice, codifying success principles of locally led state infrastructure campaigns, and detailing how regional and state leaders can use Investment in Infrastructure & Jobs Act dollars to equip a diverse new generation of infrastructure workers.

Brookings Metro is contributing to equitable climate mitigation and adaptation through new federal investments by framing the need for community-led solutions to sustainable local development, making the case for reliable measures of the “payoff” from resilience-focused investments, demonstrating how the public sector can tap emerging data sources to better partner with investors and consumers, and bolstering local capacity to deploy federal investment toward equitable, climate-smart outcomes.