Economy

You might think that a region as globally powerful as the Bay Area would have a coordinated and deliberate strategy for growing our economy and cre...

A surprising and potentially very damaging decision by the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) may challenge that California is still a great plac...

There has been considerable buzz in recent weeks about the potential for online education to play a role in addressing some of the growing challeng...

Many Bay Area companies are holding off on business investments as they wait to see if the U.S. will plunge off the fiscal cliff, according to a Ba...

Clearly energized from his Proposition 30 victory, and preparing next year's budget and his State of the State speech, Governor Jerry Brown sat dow...

With victories and major progress in 2012 on all of the Bay Area Council’s top policy priorities, the Executive Committee this week adopted its 2...

When it comes to creating jobs in California across a wide range of income levels and employment sectors, a new report by the Bay Area Council Econ...

The outlook for continuing jobs and economic growth in the Bay Area are strong, according to data presented by Bay Area Council Chief Economist Jon...

There is plenty of anxious hand-wringing among business groups and fiscal conservatives statewide – and perhaps even among those that aren’t ne...

The Bay Area Council on October 26 released its third quarter results of Business Confidence Survey, with more employers saying they’ll stand pat...