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Los Angeles, May 2, 2017 – The Milken Institute today issued a new report challenging Los Angeles County’s entertainment industry to invest in diversifying its workforce. The report, New Skills at Work: Keeping Los Angeles at the Cutting...

How a region copes with economic challenges is as important to its long-term prosperity as how it grows in good times. Certain regions, such as the Bend-Redmond metropolitan statistical area in Oregon, have been able to rebound more quickly...

LOS ANGELES—The Milken Institute’s annual Best-Performing Cities index for 2016 shows that tech is still tops, as cities that excel in innovation drive the nation’s economic dynamism. With an ecosystem for entrepreneurship, San Jose, CA...

SBA and Milken Institute Launch Initiative to Improve Access to Capital for Underserved Communities in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES — Today the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Milken Institute jointly launched the Los Angeles...

Passed in 1970, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is the state’s broadest environmental law. While the landmark legislation was designed as a tool for activists to protect the state’s fragile ecosystems, litigation abuse has...

The Milken Institute’s State Technology and Science Index (STSI) series benchmarks states on their science and technology capacity. It also assesses states broader ecosystems for innovation, development, and commercialization that translate...

As the Great Recession recedes in our rearview mirrors, it is becoming ever more apparent that innovative activities are determining an increasing proportion of the long-term economic growth of cities, metropolitan areas, regions, states...

Californians face an unprecedented challenge finding affordable housing. Over the past 30 years, the precipitous rise in housing prices, development constraints, and stagnant growth in real income have cultivated a housing ecosystem that...

What factors distinguish cities that can withstand an economic downturn, or rebound afterward, from those that cannot? Are these factors unique to successful cities, or are there best practices that can be adopted by peer cities? Building...

Income distribution in the U.S. and California has become far less equal since about 1980. Much of the rising disparity appears to be the result of increasing returns on capital assets relative to labor earnings (Piketty, 20141). This is...