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How Culture Shapes Economic Development A new study, drawing on 1.5 million images of cultural spaces in London and New York, finds that cultural...

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Beyond Bells & Whistles What’s Smartest? Systems That Help Humans. Like the traffic jams they seek to eliminate, the list of regions...

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“In the absence of this commence-construction guidance, tax equity partners were growing cautious about project risk.” The Internal...

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Confirmed, Again: Cost of Community Development Tax Incentives is Comparatively Small Late last month the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT)...

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The United States has, for an incredible sixth year in a row, topped A.T. Kearney’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Confidence Index, an...

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It’s a scenario that plays out over and over in cities across the country: A small business in a hip neighborhood closes, the storefront is...

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Qualified Opportunity Zones were included as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act which became law in December 2017. The zones were originally...

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The article challenges the perception among some in the field of community and economic development that small and socioeconomically distressed...

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Included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and passed in December 2017 was a set of provisions to incentivize new investment in low-income communities...

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The Renewable Fuel Standard is the primary federal policy that drives the development of renewable natural gas (RNG) projects. Since the advent of...

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The moment President Donald Trump’s administration released its long-awaited infrastructure plan, manypeople in state capitals and local...

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It is difficult to overstate how crucial workforce development is to a state’s economic health. CNBC’s Scott Cohn notes in...

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