In conjunction with our release of the report Black Business Opportunity Strategy: The Journey of Black Business Owners in Memphis, we are also releasing a set of interactive visualizations that allow users to view the characteristics of Black- and white-owned businesses in the Memphis metropolitan area, other metropolitan areas with available data, and the United… Continue reading The Memphis Black Business Owner Interactive Data Tool
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Black Business Owners in Memphis: A Data Story
Introduction Heartland Forward is assisting Memphis-area policymakers and entrepreneur support organizations in creating a more equitable entrepreneurship ecosystem for Black business owners. Achieving equity is key to improving quality of life in the Black community, as entrepreneurship can be a gateway to creating generational wealth for families. It is also key to unlocking the potential… Continue reading Black Business Owners in Memphis: A Data Story
Child Care Policy Efficiency: What States Can Do To Promote Affordable, Accessible, High-Quality Child Care
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank the following people who graciously spent time answering our questions and sharing their expertise to help inform our research: Jerry AkersEntrepreneur who offers child care benefits to employees Suzanne SchreiberOklahoma State Legislator Jane AlexanderFormer center director Dan TeefeyExecutive Director of Tracy Family Foundation Cindy DeckerExecutive Director of Tulsa Educare… Continue reading Child Care Policy Efficiency: What States Can Do To Promote Affordable, Accessible, High-Quality Child Care
Place-based Economic Development: Creating growth in the heartland
Three relatively new federal acts constitute nearly $2 trillion of investments aimed to bolster U.S. competitiveness by stimulating innovation, tech commercialization and domestic manufacturing, while stabilizing and enhancing domestic supply chains1. Such a place-based, capacity-building approach would seem to dovetail nicely with the heartland’s traditional strengths and work ethic. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act… Continue reading Place-based Economic Development: Creating growth in the heartland
Regional Collaboration Drives Economic Development: Tulsa and Northwest Arkansas’ FLAME Proposal
Tulsa and Northwest Arkansas are embarking upon a novel cross-state, super-regional economic development collaboration to create greater density of assets in order to build a logistics and advanced mobility cluster. In the past, jurisdictional geography boundaries have restricted attempts and success in forming broader asset pools to fill gaps in competency and compete against larger… Continue reading Regional Collaboration Drives Economic Development: Tulsa and Northwest Arkansas’ FLAME Proposal
Most Dynamic Metros 2022
America’s top metropolitan areas are joined by at least one common thread – an affinity for innovation. Whether their business is building cars or showing off their natural wonders, these thriving areas are meeting the future with open arms and a cutting-edge mindset. Larger areas consistently turn innovation into firms where high-paying jobs support an… Continue reading Most Dynamic Metros 2022
Just Published: Health Care Access in the Heartland
Read Heartland Forward’s most recent research report, Health Care Access in the Heartland: How to improve services in rural America, offers a qualitative and quantitative look at the causes, effects and possible policy solutions to improve health services and workforce opportunities for rural communities. Visit the Rural Health Care Accessibility Atlas Download our policy roadmap
Health Care Access in the Heartland
Rural America’s workforce has faced a number of challenges over the last 15 years that has reduced its economic activity. Illness and a lack of adequate, accessible health care, people leaving the labor force prematurely due to poorly controlled chronic disease or injuries, or the need to care for ill or elderly family members all… Continue reading Health Care Access in the Heartland
Health Care Access in the Heartland – Appendices
APPENDIX 1 A data-dependent identification process was implemented to select the 12 locations in which to hold focus groups. Since the project is focused on underserved rural populations, only counties designated as a geographic health care professional shortage area (HPSA) by the Health Resources and Services Administration were considered. Ultimately, four criteria were utilized… Continue reading Health Care Access in the Heartland – Appendices
From Research To Renewal, Part 2: States Realizing The Potential Of Research Institutions
Technology transfers – or sharing the results of research that leads to innovation – are an essential fuel for the economic growth of state economies. A better understanding the technology transfer activities in each state helps governors, state agencies and state legislatures – the ultimate guardians of economic development – to make informed decisions about… Continue reading From Research To Renewal, Part 2: States Realizing The Potential Of Research Institutions