July 2, 2024

In This Issue

• Feature
• News & Reports
• ICYMI

• Data Visualization
• Careers
• Key Events & Courses

Features

The Baton Has Been Passed! We Are Headed to Sacramento in 2025!

You have probably already heard the exciting news: the 65th annual C2ER Conference and LMI Forum will be held in Sacramento, CA from May 28-30! This is the first west coast conference in 10 years, so we are really looking forward to this one. Save the date!

SBA Announces New Solicitation to Expand Funding for

Regional Innovation Cluster Network

SBA Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration and the voice for more than 33 million small businesses, announced a new funding solicitation for the SBA’s Regional Innovation Cluster (RIC) Initiative that will make awards for the first time at two funding levels: emerging and mature clusters. The RIC solicitation will open on July 1, 2024, and will close on July 26 at 1:00 PM ET. Click here for details.

News & Reports

Headlines

• Economic Development Administration – Next Funding Round of $504 Million for 12 Tech Hubs Across America Share
• NPR – U.S. Home Prices Have Far Outpaced Paychecks. See What It Looks Like Where You Live
• Route Fifty – Biden Administration Awards $1.8B for Urban, Rural Transportation Projects
• Smart Incentives – Lessons Learned for Building Strategic Alignment

Reports – From Our Members

• California Centers of Excellence for Labor Market Research – Senior Care Workforce Needs Study
• Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness – CREC Policy Academy: A Learning Cohort Designed to Improve Regional Competitiveness by Enhancing State and Local Alignment Strategies
• Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina Inc. – Educating Talent That’s Smart Enough to Stay Here

Reports – Non-members

• Bureau of Economic Analysis – Gross Domestic Product by State and Personal Income by State, 1st Quarter 2024
• Bureau of Economic Analysis – New and Revised Statistics for the U.S. Space Economy, 2017–2022
• Bureau of Labor Statistics – Employer Costs for Employee Compensation March 2024
• Bureau of Labor Statistics – Real Average Hourly Earnings Increased 0.8 Percent From May 2023 to May 2024
• Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce – A Law Degree Is No Sure Thing
• Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University – The State of the Nation’s Housing 2024

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ICYMI

• NPR – What Does a Downtown Rebound Look Like? More Residents and Weekend Visitors
• Smart Cities Dive – 4 U.S. Cities Driven by Data
• Washington Post – See How Someone Your Age Spent Their Money in 1972

Data Visualization

Census Bureau Facts for Features: The Fourth of July: 2024 (Click for full data)

Careers

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Our Events

C2ER/LMI Institute Annual Conference and Forum

May 28 – 30, 2025

Sacramento, CA

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Industry Events

CDFA

Tribal Finance Webinar

July 9, 2024

October 15, 2024

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET

Data You Can Use

Data Day 2024

October 23, 2024

Milwaukee, WI

SSTI

Annual Conference

December 10 – 12, 2024

Phoenix, AZ

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