Other Economies

The battle to attract–and retain–European startups is getting brutal.

It’s pretty clear that nobody is here by accident. Everyone is right where they need to be, and if they work together they might do more than just build businesses—they might help change the way we talk about an entire community. They might make sure this is all more than just noise.

Gov. Jay Nixon is asking the Missouri Legislature to approve state incentives for Boeing if the company adds thousands of new jobs.

Evidence and common sense should matter more in our overheated political debates. The lesson from the upper Midwest is that rigid anti-tax dogma fails to deliver a convincing optimistic vision that widens economic opportunity and security. The excesses of liberalism may lurk, but Minnesota is building a modern progressivism that plows a hopeful path.

Next month’s Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium is expected to attract investors from across Wisconsin, the Upper Midwest and beyond to see the latest and greatest from the state’s start-up community.

Small County in Kansas Touts Activities, Incentives to Lure Residents and Avoid Rural Woe of Population Decline

Old Person is waging a quiet battle to save the Blackfeet culture and its people.

No single ethnic group in the United States is more identified with rural areas than Native Americans. Yet two out of every three American Indians live and work in urban areas.

Instead of chasing after the fool’s gold of becoming cool, it has found a way to attract new residents and increase its economic vitality by promising its public school students a free college education if they graduate from high school with good grades.

It is more important than ever that our state and local governments invest in technology as it is the very thing that will drive economic growth.