U.S. Metro Areas

Workforce space

Setting the stage for talent-driven economic development

Thursday, December 12, 2019

Spreading tech hubs to more of America: A proposal

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM EST

Talent development

Talent is America’s most precious resource—it’s time economic development organizations focus more on developing it

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Open Works

How a Baltimore makerspace is encouraging trust between local residents, businesses, and institutions

Will Holman and Ronald C. Williams, Ph.D.

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Automation workers

AI will affect better-paid workers—but that doesn’t mean they’re the most vulnerable

Mark Muro, Robert Maxim, and Jacob Whiton

Thursday, December 5, 2019

Row houses

“Gentle” density can save our neighborhoods

Alex Baca, Patrick McAnaney, and Jenny Schuetz

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Kansas City

The case for growth centers: How to spread tech innovation across America

Robert D. Atkinson, Mark Muro, and Jacob Whiton

December 9, 2019

Amtrak track workers work inside the tunnel at New York's Penn Station, the nation's busiest train hub, which will be closing tracks for repairs causing massive disruptions to commuters in New York City, U.S. July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1500696CA0

To fix our infrastructure, Washington needs to start from scratch

Adie Tomer, Joseph W. Kane, and Lara Fishbane

December 4, 2019

Target store

Black Friday shopping season sheds light on self-checkout and the curse of ‘so-so technologies’

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Heather Padgett, with her mother Debi Padgett (R), takes her daughters Kinsley and Kiley for a walk outside their home in Cincinnati, Ohio July 16, 2015. Until she got clean last August, Heather was part of what the Centers for Disease Control has called a heroin epidemic - a 100 percent rise in heroin addiction among Americans between 2002 and 2013. The sharp rise in heroin addiction, coupled with the risks of newborns developing withdrawal symptoms after they are sent home, has led a group of Cincinnati hospitals to try what they say is the first program of its kind in the United States: testing all mothers, or their infants, for opiates regardless of background, not just those who seem high-risk. To match Feature USA-HEROIN/MATERNALTESTING Picture taken July 16, 2015. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein - GF20000015645

Demographer William Frey unpacks why fewer Americans are moving

William H. Frey

NPR Tuesday, November 26, 2019