In many ways, these are communities where the American Dream is still alive. Take Le Mars, Iowa. Dubbed the ice cream ...

What our data shows is that many small town and rural communities are finally enjoying some wind in their sails to support revitalization efforts, as population growth in the nation’s least populous ...

Why the Midwest Is Now the Most Affordable Region in the Nation Categories: In the News | Published On: October 6, 2026 | ...

Just in time to inform governors’ work nominating the next round of Opportunity Zone (OZ) census tracts this summer, the Treasury Department has released new data reporting that federal OZ tax ...

Three-quarters of American voters support increasing high-skilled immigration (HSI), with widespread approval across the entire political spectrum and in every presidential swing state. That’s ...

Too much research on remote work treats it as one uniform category of working. Although full-remote and hybrid work may seem fairly similar, the differences of their economic impacts are substantial.

Left-behind counties in the United States have just experienced their strongest three-year period of job creation and business growth since the turn of the 21st century. Despite their vigorous ...

Over the first six months of 2023, applications to start a business likely to hire employees outpaced last year's first half-year amount by more than 7 percent. Assuming the current trend holds, then ...

The 2025 Reconciliation Act, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), calls on governors to act in summer 2026 by nominating one-quarter of their low-income census tracts for Opportunity ...

The pandemic ushered in a period of huge disruption to American life, altering how and where people across the United States live. The U.S. Census Bureau’s recently released 2022 county population ...