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Global Cities Indianapolis: Building and Sustaining a Competitive Region
Event Information February 19, 2015 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM ESTBallroom The Alexander Hotel 333 South Delaware Street Indianapolis, IN 46204 While the national economy is improving, the pace of growth...
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A new generation of economic development
Metropolitan leaders across the country share a desire to create high quality jobs, get more young adults and other workers into those jobs, expand incomes, reduce inequality, and keep their core...
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In Kentucky, manufacturers partner to bridge the skills gap
When General Electric announced plans to ramp up production at its Louisville Appliances & Lighting plant several years ago, the company and its suppliers faced a significant barrier: finding...
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Velocity: Accelerating Phoenix’s emergence as an innovation economy
As Greater Phoenix began to climb out of the housing collapse earlier this decade, regional leaders had a choice: continue the Valley’s traditional growth model built on real estate, retail, and...
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Beyond Baltimore: Building on what we know to create neighborhood opportunities
Since the events in Baltimore, columns and stories have asked why concentrated poverty persists in neighborhoods like Sandtown-Winchester and what can be done to help young people like Freddie Gray...
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Chicago’s innovation labs: The ‘Second City’ continues to reinvent urban policy
Universities and research and development partners in Chicago are positioning the city to be a test bed for innovation, with the goal of driving breakthroughs in urban technology and practice that can...
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FirstBuild: When corporations and entrepreneurs collaborate
Over the course of a nonstop 33 hours in April, more than 200 jeans- and T-shirt-clad aspiring inventors took part in a mega “Hack the Home” challenge hosted by FirstBuild, GE’s microfactory in...
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Baltimore and beyond: Creating opportunity in places
Event Information May 21, 2015 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM EDTFalk Auditorium 1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, DC Register for the Event Recent events in Baltimore and St. Louis underscore the enduring...
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After Baltimore, moving from why to what’s next
Efforts to understand the root causes of the recent civil unrest in Baltimore will continue for some time. Yet it would be a waste if we did not spend equivalent energy looking forward—seeking to...
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To drive the economy, Minneapolis-St. Paul looks to the dashboard
The first initiative coming out of Minneapolis-St. Paul's regional economic strategy was not a new skills effort or an infrastructure plan. Instead leaders behind the strategy unveiled a “Regional...
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Amy Liu extols New Orleans’ resilience 10 years after Hurricane Katrina
“New Orleans is still in the middle of a major urban experiment,” says Senior Fellow Amy Liu in this podcast, the 50th episode of the Brookings Cafeteria. “It’s an urban experiment that is not so much...
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Written remarks of Amy Liu, “Make It In America: What’s Next?” second hearing
Continuing the discussion on America’s economic landscape, House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (Md.) held a second hearing of the “Make It In America: What’s Next?” series on July 28, 2015. The...
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Hard lessons from creating jobs and opportunity in the next economy
In January 2011, the United States was still in the grips of the Great Recession. The unemployment rate sat at a stubborn 9 percent, slightly lower than the high of 10 percent in October 2009. Job...
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Opportunity clusters: Identifying pathways to good jobs in metro New Orleans
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, the conversation in metro New Orleans is less about post-disaster recovery and more about the challenge that many communities face today: the need to shape an...
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Post-Katrina New Orleans is bouncing back, but not for the better
As President Obama and others commemorate lives lost and progress made in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina, competing narratives about the city’s recovery and its beneficiaries will emerge. Yet,...
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Pillars of prosperity: Leveraging regional assets to grow Minnesota's economy
Minnesota has always been rich with assets—a skilled labor force, good jobs in diverse industries, globally competitive companies, and abundant lakes and parks that provide a high quality of life for...
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Tech-savvy Portland aims to make growth inclusive
As cities across the country begin to explore ways to make sure economic growth reaches more workers, Portland is emerging as an unlikely model for inclusive strategies. Greater Portland Inc., a...
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Bruce Katz named first-ever Centennial Scholar; Amy Liu appointed vice...
WASHINGTON, DC—Today, Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution, announced that Bruce Katz will become the Institution’s first-ever Centennial Scholar. Katz is currently vice president...
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Achieving an advanced economy that works for all: The Brookings Metropolitan...
Although 2016 marks the seventh year of the U.S. economy’s recovery from the Great Recession, large numbers of people and places have made limited progress, and economic uncertainties remain...
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New York’s powerful regional partnerships for economic growth
Earlier this week, I joined New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in Rochester, where he previewed several new economic initiatives from his upcoming state-of-the-state and budget address. The announcements,...
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