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Heartland Forward Senior Fellows Joel Kotkin and Richard Florida cover how America’s economic geography has long been shaped by the interplay of pull and push forces.

COVID-19 exposed risks and spurred conversations about moving manufacturing, but the pandemic is far from the only factor to consider.

By Times of Entrepreneurship The cities on the list have many things in common: many are large metropolitan areas, state capitals, and most have more than one university in the area. One little noticed phenomenon is that many are blue cities in red states. Click here to continue reading

For the region to prosper, its bigger cities must flourish

Growth remains a bigger worry than unemployment in at least a few cities. They’re scattered around the country, but their economies have a few qualities in common that have made them pandemic-proof.

With the Paycheck Protection Program over, it’s clear that minority-led businesses needed more, and potentially different, help.

The technology sector increasingly underpins the U.S. economy, with signs of its growth becoming more woven into local economies far outside iconic innovation hubs like Silicon Valley and New York.