July 7, 2022

Announcements

The Future of C2ER and LMI Institute 

At the 2022 Annual Conference the new Chairs of C2ER and the LMI Institute spoke on their vision for the future of both organizations. Hear from Laura Coleman and Tim Kestner and where they plan to lead the associations in the next year.

Laura Coleman, Statewide Director for the Center of Excellence for Labor Market Research (COE)

Timothy Kestner, Director, Economic Information and Analytics Division, Virginia Employment Commission

News & Reports

Headlines

• Bloomberg CityLab – Here’s Where Car Payments Cost More Than Rent in the US
• Bureau of Labor Statistics – Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary
• Business Insider – New Hires Are Getting Salary Raises After Just Weeks on the Job as Companies Give In to Cost-Of-Living-Based Pay Increases
• Economic Development Administration – Grant Opportunity: FY 2022 CARES Act Economic Recovery Corps and Equity Impact Investments NOFO Department of Commerce (Deadline August 5th) 
• MIT Technology Review – We Need Smarter Cities, Not “Smart Cities” (op-ed)
• Route Fifty – How Cities and Counties Are Thinking Big With Their ARPA Plans
• Wall Street Journal – Empty Wall Street Offices to Be Revived as Apartments (Paywall)

Reports – From Our Members

• Smart Incentives – Leaving No One Behind: Finding Policy Solutions to Eliminate Barriers to Work for People With Disabilities

Reports – Non-members

• Brookings – Making Local Economies Prosperous and Resilient: The Case for a Modern Economic Development Administration
• Bureau of Labor Statistics – American Time Use Survey: 2021 Results
• Conference Board – 2022 Salary Increase Budgets Are the Highest Since 2008
• JPMorgan Chase & Co. Policy Center – Data-Driven Policies to Support Household, Small Business, and Community Recovery and Advance Racial Equity
• Kaiser Family Foundation – How Equitable is Access to COVID-19 Treatments?
• Lensa – Least Affordable States
• WalletHub – 2022’s Best- & Worst-Run Cities in America

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ICYMI

• Arkansas Democrat-Gazette – Arkansas Declined to Spend Money on Census, Missed Over 5% Of Its Residents, Report States
• BBC News – Australia Census: Five Ways the Country Is Changing
• New Albany Gazette – Undercounted Census Numbers Hurt State Funding, Affect Political Landscape

Data Visualization

Household Income Distribution in the U.S. Visualized as 100 Homes

Careers

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eLearning Courses

Foundations of Economic Development Research I: Introduction to Data Sources

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Foundations of Economic Development Research II: Introduction to Regional Analysis Methods

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Introduction to Labor Market Information

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Industry Events

National Association of Counties 

2022 NACo Annual Conference & Exposition

July 21 – 24, 2022

Adams County, CO

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UEDA Place Network Convening + ARENI Applying the Ecodistricts Protocol to University influenced Neighborhoods

July 27, 2022

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET

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Smart City Expo USA

September 14 – 15, 2022

Miami Beach, FL

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University Economic Development Association

2022 Summit: Harnessing Your Region’s Energy to Accelerate Innovative Futures

October 9 – 12, 2022

San Antonio, TX

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National League of Cities

City Summit

November 17 – 19, 2022

Kansas City, MO

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American Economic Association

ASSA 2023 Annual Meeting

January 6 – 8, 2023

New Orleans, LA

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