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The Milken Institute's annual "Best-Performing Cities" index shows that technology and shale energy were the biggest factors behind America's booming cities. Tech titan San Francisco claimed the top spot, up two ranks from last year. Last...

LOS ANGELES — The Milken Institute’s annual “Best-Performing Cities” index shows that technology and shale energy were the biggest factors behind America’s booming cities — especially technology. Tech titan San Francisco claimed the top...

Massachusetts is first – once again – in the Milken Institute’s State Technology and Science Index 2014. The index is made up of five composites that can be applied across all 50 states for comparison and analysis, with 78 unique indicators...

As California recovers from the Great Recession, it faces an uphill battle against the perception that it is an anti-business state. Many entrepreneurs balk at what they believe to be a business climate that overtaxes, overregulates, and...

California's Central Valley suffers from underinvestment and substandard educational attainment levels, which hamper its ability to both modernize the agriculture value chain and to provide significant advancement opportunities for workers...

California's stronghold on the entertainment industry is loosening as production jobs are lured to other locations due to production credits and other tax breaks. Between 2004 and 2012, the state lost more than 16,000 jobs in filmed...

Massachusetts is first -- again -- in the Milken Institute's State Technology and Science Index 2012. The index tracks and evaluates every state's tech and science capabilities -- and their success at converting those assets into companies...

LOS ANGELES— The Milken Institute's annual "Best-Performing Cities" index shows that technology and energy are the biggest forces behind America’s booming cities. Austin, Texas, reclaimed the No.1 spot based on a booming technology sector...

For the second year in a row, Texas metropolitan areas — led by the Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood metropolitan area — dominated the Milken Institute′s Best-Performing Cities Index. The results show that a business-friendly climate, a vibrant...

The Milken Institute's annual index of Best-Performing Cities shows that technology and energy are the biggest forces behind America's booming metros.The ranking index shows where jobs are being created and sustained in metros across the U...