Publication Date: 2020 Author: Peter Grema, Caitlin Saladino, William E. Brown Abstract: This Fact Sheet summarizes and expands upon the findings of the Milken Institute’s 2018 Best Performing Cities series report on the top 200 large cities and top 200 small cities in the United States in 2018. For the purposes of this Fact Sheet, the report focuses on 26 metropolitan areas located within…
Publication Date: 2020 Author: Ember Smith, Caitlin Saladino, William E. Brown Abstract: This Fact Sheet highlights the effects of major shifts in geographic mobility patterns of highly-educated citizens in the Mountain West (Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado). The phenomenon, dubbed “brain drain” by experts, is characterized by the out-migration of a group of…
Publication Date: 2019 Author: Peter Grema, Caitlin Saladino, William E. Brown Abstract: This Fact Sheet reprints two pages from the March 2019 DEFENSE SPENDING BY STATE (FISCAL YEAR 2017) publication issued by the United States Department of Defense: Office of Economic Adjustment for the purposes of relaying information related to defense spending in the State of Nevada.1 The original report…
Publication Date: 2019 Author: Ember Smith, Caitlin Saladino, William E. Brown Abstract: This Fact Sheet highlights the automation potential in the Mountain West states (Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado) and its metropolitan statistical areas using the findings of Automation and Artificial Intelligence: How machines are affecting people and places, a report by the Brookings…
Publication Date: 2019 Author: Madison Frazee-Bench, Caitlin Saladino, William E. Brown Abstract: This Fact Sheet highlights Nevada and Mountain West data from the 2018 Economic Diversity Index (EDI), prepared by Chmura Economics & Analysis the economic diversity data details the disparities within counties in Nevada. The tables below show the different levels of economic diversity that…
Publication Date: 2019 Author: Lauren Fousek, Caitlin Saladino Abstract: This Fact Sheet highlights the Economic Distress Indicators (EDI) for the 17 counties within Nevada. Using the Economic Innovations Group1 DCI (Distressed Communities Index),2 the Tables that follow report EDI for each of the 17 counties in Nevada, grouped within two time-frames (2007-2011 and 2012-2016), and showing…
Publication Date: April 2019 Authors: Yanneli Llamas, Caitlin J. Saladino, William E. Brown, Jr. Abstract: This fact sheet highlights the income inequality in Nevada at both the county and metropolitan level, and within the Southwest Megapolitan Triangle. Read the Publication