Video discussion: @EDQ_Journal @SAGEJournals Editor @TimBartik @UpjohnInstitute on targeted policies for distressed communities. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAHz...

Mike Horrigan and Tim Bartik: Targeting Job Creation

YouTube video by Upjohn Institute

New unemployment insurance claims remain steady and low, down 2% to 218K into last week. Continuing claims steady, ticking up 0.7% to 1.834M to week ending Sept 14. #️⃣#️⃣

There's a fixed cost to go through the design process for any community. We paid it for this community, creating an asset of messages that's now available. We'd love to see someone take the asset & create value with it by doing the marginal-cost work of marketing & distribution here or elsewhere.

Loved working with community leaders & scholars from psychology, health, music education, family social science, child development to make this happen. Mobile parenting supports like Text4Baby & ParentPowered have shown great results but their designs exclude many parents. Audio better for some.

How to support marginalized parents in our communities? UMinn scholars partnered with local Somali-American parents & community leaders to develop a low-cost (high-value?) way. Tuned to Somali-American culture. Audio based, no reading required. In Somali, with English option.

"Tax abatements are like phantom limbs: the revenues are hypothetical; the pain is real," Christine Wen says in a video describing her recent article for Economic Development Quarterly. #Econskywww.upjohn.org/publications...

@EDQ_Journal @SAGE Journals recommends the New Hire Quality Index. In this month’s Index @BradHershbein @UpjohnInstitute compares hiring in the goods and services sectors. www.upjohn.org/about/news-e...

Weakness in the goods sector: New Hires Quality Index

U.S. employees record-high job security for extends per new #JOLTS data. The smallest share of employees fired in a month was 1.1% in the 229 months of pre-pandemic data, happened in 2% of months. Share = 1.3% in Dec 2020. Since Jan'21, firing rate = or under 1.1% in 97% of months, all but 1.

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Most cited article in @EDQ_Journal @SAGEJournals in the past 3 yrs: “Taxes and Economic Development: An Update on the State of the Economics Literature” by Andrew Hanson, U of Illinois at Chicago. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...