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2016 California Summit Review: An Action Plan for Growth and Innovation
The Milken Institute’s fourth annual California Summit provided an opportunity to assemble prominent state lead...
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California's Innovation-Based Economy: Policies to Maintain and Enhance It
To maintain its leadership in innovation, California must provide a competitive business environment in which p...
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Accelerating Workforce Housing Development Across California
California has long had a shortage of affordable housing, most notably along the coast, around universities and...
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Preparing California for the Future of Work: Creating Equity by Addressing the Access Gap
This report focuses on how the public and private sector workforce systems in California have adapted to techno...
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Best-Performing Cities 2020: Where America’s Jobs Are Created and Sustained
About Best-Performing Cities
How did US regional economies perform recently? What are the key factors driving ...
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In a Vulnerable State: Hispanic Essential Workers in California
Using 2019 Current Population Survey data, this policy brief examines California’s essential workforce by race,...
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Future-Proofing the Video Game Industry in California
Today, all 50 U.S. states have a video game industry presence, and 21 of those states offer financial incentive...
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Financing Models to Expand Access to Electric Vehicles in California
California accelerated the adoption rate of electric vehicles (EVs) through rebates and other operational incen...
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New Skills at Work: Keeping Los Angeles at the Cutting Edge in an Evolving Industry
For more than a century, people have created filmed entertainment in Hollywood. Hollywood has been one of the k...
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Insights from the C-Suite: Californias Business Climate
From transformative new technologies, ambitious climate laws and controversial social initiatives, California remains a prol...
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Preparing California for the Future of Work
The future of work is taking shape under the looming specter of automation and the spreading application of artificial intel...
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Beyond Brotopia: Leaders Challenging the Boys Club of Silicon Valley
In her bestseller, journalist Emily Chang dubs Silicon Valley "Brotopia," a place where men hold all the cards and make all ...
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Building Bridges to Developing Economies: Reports From Field Practice
By 2030, the middle class of the developing world will represent about one-third of the global economy. Today, developed nat...
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Green Gold: Californias New Cash Crop
California, already the nation’s largest producer of medical marijuana – a $7 billion industry – is poised to become the lar...
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Immigration and the California Economy
As immigration policy has become an urgent policy item in the United States and Europe, California finds itself caught squar...
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Made in California: Presentations from California Grown Startups
California’s venture capital isn’t invested solely in tech and software. The Golden State is quickly developing fertile grou...
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Big Cities, Big Data: How Smart Cities Improve Lives & Save Money
From homelessness and housing to pensions to public safety, more California cities are using sophisticated data analytics to...
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Alternative Small Business Financing: Keeping California on Top and Sharing the Wealth
Small businesses in California employ nearly half of the state's private workforce but lack the capital to grow. Though a re...
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Sustainable Solutions For a Green Future
California, the country’s most populous, diverse and economically dynamic state, is in the midst of a transformation to turn...