Prosperity means many different things to many different people. For some, it means wealth. For others, health. Or education. Or a sustainable environment. The resources—financial or otherwise—that society needs to make collective progress...

2018 was a revolutionary year for film. According to the MPAA, global box office receipts climbed to $41.1 billion, with revenue from theaters in the US and Canada reaching a new high. This revenue was not built on “business as usual”...

I first set foot on American soil when I was three years old. Like so many immigrant families, mine left Italy to pursue opportunity and a better life. And when they imagined that better life for me, they always told me the same thing: it...

Technological advances have the power to alleviate suffering and improve living standards, but we still have much work to do before we can realize their benefits broadly, on a global scale. We cannot take innovation, or the benefits it...

At Sesame Workshop, we have always believed that if we want to see a better, more peaceful, more prosperous world, one of the best investments we can make is in quality early education for the world’s children. This has been our call to...

By most key measures, it appears US investors have been handsomely rewarded since the global financial crisis of 2008. The stock market is in the midst of the longest bull market on record, resulting in record-high 401(k) and IRA balances....

Earlier this year, Citi decided to be transparent about a statistic I’ve described as “disappointing” and “ugly:” Citi’s unadjusted or “raw” pay gap for women and US minorities, which measures the difference in median total compensation...

The State Technology and Science Index (STSI) measures states on their science and technology capabilities and broader commercialization ecosystems that contribute to firm expansion, high-skills job creation, and broad economic growth. It...

Universities play an important role in determining a region’s capacity for innovation and to transform new ideas into economic activity. Not only do they educate the local workforce—creating human capital—and produce intellectual property...

This report investigates the means of U.S. states and the U.S. as a whole to educate and maintain a local workforce as the economic landscape of the U.S. is seeing increasing competition for a talented workforce. The concentration of...