In many ways, these are communities where the American Dream is still alive. Take Le Mars, Iowa. Dubbed the ice cream ...

What our data shows is that many small town and rural communities are finally enjoying some wind in their sails to support revitalization efforts, as population growth in the nation’s least populous ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Economic dynamism has been in decline across the U.S. economy for decades, but new data suggests the High Tech sector, once viewed as an engine of innovation, is no longer as dynamic as it once was.

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 ...

Zoning reform has historically been treated as a matter for state and local authorities alone. Under the constitutional framework established by the Tenth Amendment and the 1926 Supreme Court case ...

Do H-1B visa holders earn more or less than Americans? There are two different ways to answer this. If we compare H-1B holders to the average native-born worker, the answer is unequivocal that the ...

The COVID-19 crisis plunged the U.S. economy into its quickest and deepest economic recession in modern U.S. history. In the near-term, how and when the country gets out of the disaster will primarily ...