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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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Recalibrating Workforce Development Across California
The COVID-19 crisis has had far-reaching consequences, including the upending of traditional work systems and t...
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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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Investing in Los Angeles' Urban Resiliency - Executive Summary
Most countries are underinvesting in their efforts to deal with expected population increases and climate stres...
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A Hollywood Update: Changes and Transformations in Hollywood Since the Passage of the 2014 California Filmed Production Incentive
Since the passage of the expansion of California’s Film and Television Production Credit in 2014, the global co...
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2017 California Summit Review: California Leading
California’s economic landscape is a platform that fosters global engagement by bringing together leaders from ...
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The Supply Side: Defining a Pathway for Increasing California’s Housing Development Opportunities
Californians face an unprecedented challenge finding affordable housing. Over the past 30 years, the precipitou...
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Financial Models for Water Sustainability
In 2015, NASA data showed that California reservoirs contained only one year of water supply and California’s t...
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An Economic Road Map for Kern County
California boasts one the biggest economies in the world, yet is considered challenging for doing business. But...
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Effective Government and Economic Expansion: How California Is Improving Permitting and Communication to Spur Business
As California recovers from the Great Recession, it faces an uphill battle against the perception that it is an...
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Local Harvest: Developing the Central Valley Workforce for California's Future Agriculture
California's Central Valley suffers from underinvestment and substandard educational attainment levels, which h...
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A Hollywood Exit: What California Must Do to Remain Competitive in Entertainment - and Keep Jobs
California's stronghold on the entertainment industry is loosening as production jobs are lured to other locati...
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Rebuilding Housing Finance: Thoughts from California on Federal Reform
Both in the foreclosure crisis and in the recent recovery, California has represented a bellwether of the natio...