The Bad News You may be wondering where the good news is hiding given the string of bad news on Oklahoma unemployment claims so far in the slowdown. In the most recent data released this morning, the state posted its…
COVID 19-related layoffs are varying widely across the states. A useful measure of the severity of layoffs to date is total initial jobless claims in the first four weeks of the slowdown (from March 20 to April 10) as a…
Forbes Magazine recently covered a RegionTrack report on the role of child care at the state level.
There is surprisingly little data on the topic. We provided an answer to this question in completing a recent project on child care at the state level for the Committee for Economic Development (ced.org). What did we find? At the state level,…
Yes, those states with the highest education levels do tend to have the highest average incomes. In fact, the relationship is remarkably strong and consistent across the 50 states. Our pic-of-the-week shows the relationship between per capita income and the average number of years of schooling across the states in 2013. As you might suspect, the traditional high income (e.g. MA, CT, MN, CO, NJ, MD) and low income (e.g. WV, MS, AR, KY, AL) states generally have education levels to match.