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Bipartisan Call to Strengthen America's Economic Statistical System In a new letter to Congress penned by the Economic Innovation Group, a bipartisan group of more than 80 economists have called for proper funding and modernization of the U.S. statistical agencies.

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In a new letter to Congress penned by EIG, a bipartisan group of more than 80 economists have called for proper funding and modernization of the U.S. statistical agencies.

Jay Powell’s new normal President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will intensify on Thursday, with administration officials set to visit central bank headquarters as part of a probe in...

“Interest rates are clearly above neutral… and that’s sort of a slow-moving problem,” said Adam Ozimek in POLITICO. “If we don’t get interest rates back to neutral soon enough, the strength of interest rates alone could bring us into recession.”

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Podcast Landing Through long-form interviews with economists, policymakers, and other guests, The New Bazaar explores how the economy is constantly reshaping the way we live—and how our choices in life are reflected ...

Are you a fan of podcasts? Want to keep up to date with all things economics? Subscribe to EIG’s The New Bazaar wherever you get your podcasts!

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The 2025 reconciliation act made #OpportunityZones permanent. | Kenan Fikri The 2025 reconciliation act made #OpportunityZones permanent. Regardless what you think about the Big Beautiful Bill, OZ permanence is one big win for American communities—and a call for community d...

EIG’s @kenanfikri.bsky.social reflects on a milestone moment: Opportunity Zones are now a permanent fixture of the U.S. tax code.

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Agglomerations | Economic Innovation Group | Substack From the Economic Innovation Group, dedicated to forging a more dynamic and inclusive American economy. Click to read Agglomerations, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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How to Fortify Your Town Against Shocks Deindustrialization is not destiny

San Jose, Austin, Raleigh, and Portland, ME.

All got hammered by the China Shock. All bounced back.

What made them, and others like them, different? Adam Ozimek breaks it down:
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With updated data for 2025, check out EIG’s refreshed Index of State Dynamism and see how your state is doing.

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Analysis of the Retirement Savings for Americans Act The Retirement Savings for Americans Act proposes to provide retirement savings plans for more than 60 million Americans without a plan through their employer. This study describes the fiscal effects ...

A RAND Corporation analysis finds the Retirement Savings for Americans Act — recently reintroduced in the 119th Congress — could pay for itself within 20 years by reducing reliance on other social programs.

Learn more: www.rand.org/pubs/working...

Young families have stopped leaving big cities, for now But flatlining growth has not reversed massive pandemic-era population losses.

The post-pandemic trend of families with young kids leaving big urban counties appears to have ended, but those families that did leave have not returned. Read more from Connor O'Brien's latest Agglomerations piece.

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What the Tough Job Market for New College Grads Says About the Economy A sudden lack of career mobility is a problem for every worker.

Is AI to blame for recent college grads’ tough luck with the job market? Nathan Goldschlag isn’t entirely convinced.

Learn more: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What the Tough Job Market for New College Grads Says About the Economy A sudden lack of career mobility is a problem for every worker.

As new college grads struggle to find jobs, especially in the tech world, EIG’s Nathan Goldschlag explains why AI isn’t necessarily the main culprit.

Read more here:

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Home - Inclusive Wealth Building Initiative The U.S. economy is the world’s most powerful engine for wealth creation, yet too many Americans are left on the sidelines. How can policymakers reward work, encourage asset ownership, and boo...

Millions of hardworking Americans are being left behind by the current retirement system.

Fortunately, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is working to tackle America’s retirement challenge head-on. See the latest video from EIG: inclusivewealth.eig.org#rethinking-r...

Home - Inclusive Wealth Building Initiative The U.S. economy is the world’s most powerful engine for wealth creation, yet too many Americans are left on the sidelines. How can policymakers reward work, encourage asset ownership, and boo...

Learn more about the RSAA here: inclusivewealth.eig.org

In the latest from EIG’s American Worker Project, Pavel Brendler and Moritz Kuhn model how the Retirement Savings for Americans Act (RSAA) can help bring retirement security to millions of workers.

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What is GDP good for? Every now and then, a debate resurfaces about the flaws of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a measure of the economy.

GDP is the most widely used measure of economic health. What does it actually tell us?

Adam Ozimek explores its strengths, limitations, and what it means for policy in Agglomerations: agglomerations.substack.com/p/what-is-gd...

As the U.S. population ages, counties have become more dependent on government transfer programs like Social Security. EIG’s Great Transfer-mation project highlights these at-risk counties and the consequences of inaction.

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Opportunity Zones 2.0: Where Things Stand After the One Big Beautiful Bill Act By John Lettieri, Kenan Fikri, and Catherine Lyons Key Points […]

What does the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill mean for Opportunity Zones?

EIG’s John Lettieri, @kenanfikri.bsky.social, and Catherine Lyons break down OZs 2.0 and what the future looks like.

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The Chipmaker’s Visa: A Key Ingredient for CHIPS Act Success The Chipmaker’s Visa represents a bipartisan pathway to addressing bottlenecks to scaling up semiconductor production.

Learn more about the Chipmaker’s Visa here: eig.org/chipmakers-v...

Securing Talent for CHIPS Act Success Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.

The U.S. chipmaking sector faces two challenges: scaling up quickly and building out the sector’s most advanced production lines domestically. The solution to both: a Chipmaker’s Visa.

EIG’s Connor O'Brien makes the case for CNAS. 🌍

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The surprising, nationwide rebound in economic dynamism After decades of decline, American dynamism is making a comeback.

Read Connor O'Brien's Agglomerations post to learn more about the updated ISD: agglomerations.substack.com/p/the-surpri...

Check out the updated Index of State Dynamism (ISD) and see how your state is doing.

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After decades of decline, American economic dynamism is making an historic comeback.

New data from EIG shows that dynamism in every single state has rebounded since the pandemic, fueling the biggest national surge in at least three decades.

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Agglomerations | Economic Innovation Group | Substack From the Economic Innovation Group, dedicated to forging a more dynamic and inclusive American economy. Click to read Agglomerations, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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How to Fortify Your Town Against Shocks Deindustrialization is not destiny

San Jose. Austin. Raleigh. Portland (the one in Maine).

All four cities got hammered by the China Shock. All bounced back.

What made them, and others like them, different? Adam Ozimek breaks it down:
agglomerations.substack.com/p/how-to-for...

Congress Made Opportunity Zones Permanent. Here’s What Happens Next The GOP tax bill created OZ 2.0, but it doesn't launch until 2027, leaving an 18-month gap that could slow investment in distressed communities.

With the passage of the 2025 reconciliation bill, Opportunity Zones are now permanent. EIG’s John Lettieri spoke with Taylor Driscoll of Bisnow about what lies ahead for OZs 2.0.

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Reinventing the Heartland: An Author Q&A with Nicholas Lalla Work, Retire, Repeat shows how relatively low-cost changes to how we finance and manage retirement will allow people to truly choose how they spend their golden years.

In April, as part of EIG’s Author Series, Nicholas Lalla, author of Reinventing the Heartland, sat down with @kenanfikri.bsky.social to discuss his latest book and how technology can modernize the economy in the heartland.

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Immigration is a hot-button issue, making it easier than usual for myths and misinformation to spread. EIG put together a list of common high-skilled immigration myths — and what the facts actually show.

Read for yourself here:

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The One Big Beautiful Bill made #OpportunityZones permanent. | Kenan Fikri The One Big Beautiful Bill made #OpportunityZones permanent. That’s one big win for American communities—and a call for community development leaders to refresh their priors on a policy that’s already...

EIG’s @kenanfikri.bsky.social reflects on a milestone moment: Opportunity Zones are now a permanent fixture of the tax code.

Read his post here:
www.linkedin.com/posts/kenan-...

Over the span of 52 years, counties across the country have seen a massive increase in reliance on government transfers.

Want to see how your county fairs? Check out EIG’s Great Transfer-mation project.

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