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 ...

The 2025 Reconciliation Act calls on governors to act in summer 2026 by nominating one-quarter of their low-income census tracts for Opportunity Zone (OZ) status. This guide is intended to help ...

Over the first six months of 2023, applications to start a business likely to hire employees outpaced last year's first half-year amount by more than 7 percent. Assuming the current trend holds, then ...

Though large urban counties have not yet rebounded from large population outflows experienced in 2020 and 2021, they did nearly halt overall population loss in 2022, buoyed by more normal rates of ...

The 2010s was a decade of population decline or stagnation for many parts of the country as national population growth reached historic lows and the legal immigration pipeline slowed to a trickle. New ...

Just in time to inform governors’ work nominating the next round of Opportunity Zone (OZ) census tracts this summer, the Treasury Department has released new data reporting that federal OZ tax ...

In absence of time-consuming commutes, remote workers—particularly those living with children—are spending more time on childcare and housework. This increased flexibility and time helped boost birth ...

Donald Trump won 93 percent of rural counties in the 2024 election — not just the highest share of any Republican presidential candidate this century, but also an improvement on his own performance in ...

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 ...

Washington, D.C. – A new working paper from the Economic Innovation Group (EIG) provides the first quantitative evidence that the Opportunity Zones (OZ) incentive has significantly boosted housing ...

Too much research on remote work treats it as one uniform category of working. Although full-remote and hybrid work may seem fairly similar, the differences of their economic impacts are substantial.

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 ...