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 ...

On September 24, 2026, the Economic Innovation Group submitted a comment letter to the Department of Homeland Security in response to its proposed rule, Fee for Certain H-1B Petitions. The letter ...

A new EIG report triangulates across different types of data to get a sense of what has been happening to entrepreneurship over the past few years — and the extent to which AI is driving the trends.

The novelty of the OZ mechanism has ushered in a new generation of research as scholars race to grade the policy. Historically, researchers have found little lasting economic impact from legacy “zone” ...

The COVID-19 crisis plunged the U.S. economy into its quickest and deepest economic recession in modern U.S. history. In the near-term, how and when the country gets out of the disaster will primarily ...

Foreign-born talent plays an indispensable role in innovation in strategic industries (those important for national or economic security). Immigrants are authors or co-authors on 30 percent of all ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent tremors in the labor market are being pinned on Artificial Intelligence. A cooling job market for technology workers, for example, is taken as evidence of AI-induced job loss. So is the rising ...

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 ...

New county level population growth data reveal that 2021 marked a clear break from past trends, not a continuation of them. The patterns of growth are consistent with remote work being an important ...