The Economy in Place
An integrative platform that synthesizes a range of data to help unpack a new economic landscape, in new ways. The Economy in Place is an initiative of the Reimagining the Economy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School.
A major goal of our project is to evaluate policies intended to promote more inclusive economic development.
Such policies aim to improve the earnings and career trajectories of workers without a college education, to help distressed economic regions recover from concentrated job loss, and to strike a new balance that shifts rewards in favor of those whose share of national income has been in decline.
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Place-based data
Many of these policies are place-based: they target communities or regions, rather than individuals. Before we proceed to assess policy impacts or to impart policy recommendations, we begin with two essential exercises.
The first is to describe the variety of local economic challenges that confront the United States and other industrialized economies; the second is to map the scale and scope of interventions related to local economic development.
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