After a long run of economic growth in the 2010s and more than two years into a post-pandemic economic recovery, Elizabeth Kneebone & Alan Berube ask: What does the geography of poverty in America look like today? brookings.edu/articles/post-…

To achieve equitable economic growth through the Build Back Better Regional Challenge, it’s vital to have the right talent in place. Joe Parilla and @glencorah investigate how coalitions are staffing up to deploy once-in-a-generation federal resources. brookings.edu/articles/five-…

Dani Rodrik +1 to what Dani Rodrik writes here. I published a letter to the Economist in June critiquing their total assuredness that modern industrial policy must fail despite any definitive evidence economist.com/letters/2023/0…

“New data shows that w/o intervention generative AI jobs will likely concentrate in the usual Big-Tech hubs” | New post with Julian Jacobs
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.Axios Ben Geman profiles new work by my colleagues Adie Tomer Caroline George arguing we need to look more broadly than EVs to slash transportation emissions axios.com/2023/07/05/bro…

“Turns out, when you put more stuff near people, they don’t have to travel as far, and that has huge impacts on what we’re able to achieve economically and environmentally.” buff.ly/46tfXoR

This is HUGE. The Democratic Michigan state legislature has just passed Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s budget which includes free breakfast AND lunch to ALL 1.4 million public school students in Michigan. Democrats continue delivering. This why elections matter.

Ugh, a tough day just got worse.

An end to affirmative action in higher education raises the stakes for HBCUs. How can we position them to support student success? My colleagues Andre M. Perry Manann Donoghoe Hannah Stephens explain brookings.edu/articles/the-s…

Confused as to why it's so difficult to build new housing in California? Julia Gill and Jenny Schuetz lay out the harrowing details, and how the state's efforts to change the equation are encountering local resistance brookings.edu/articles/in-ca… California YIMBY

As communities deploy the final portions of their flexible #ARPA dollars, they should consider interventions that help tackle gun violence. My colleagues Hanna Love Glencora Haskins explain how: brookings.edu/articles/as-lo… National League of Cities NACo Accelerator For America

As a child, I was attacked by Catholic kids on a Sunday morning after their priest demonized Jews because 'the Jews killed Christ.' (Never mind that Jesus and his friends and disciples were observant Jews.) Vatican 2 stopped the evil sermons, but not antisemitism. 1/3

My colleague Bill Frey sees in the new 2021-2022 census statistics for the nation’s biggest cities a potential for revival. The vast majority of cities with populations over 500,000 showed greater gains and slower declines than in 2020. brookings.edu/research/big-c…

Make sure to follow my Brookings Metro colleague @annelies_goger Twitter thread from CEMETS this week for insights on youth #apprenticeships and public policy!

On the eve of #Juneteenth , we unpack lessons from implementation of ⁦President Biden⁩ President Biden’s historic executive orders to advance #racialequity & support underserved communities of all kinds ⁦Brookings Metro⁩ brookings.edu/blog/the-avenu…