Economy

Council Announces New Partnership to Deepen Board, Executive Diversity image

Council Announces New Partnership to Deepen Board, Executive Diversity

Despite years of hard work, women and communities of color continue to be underrepresented in the highest echelons of business leadership. Today, t...
Liccardo: Don’t Blame Tech for Exodus image

Liccardo: Don’t Blame Tech for Exodus

As the Bay Area Council moves quickly to advance our Business Climate Initiative, we were encouraged to read a powerful commentary by San Jose Mayo...
Troubling New Data Highlights Urgency of Addressing Bay Area Jobs Exodus image

Troubling New Data Highlights Urgency of Addressing Bay Area Jobs Exodus

Newly released data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the first glimpse of the pace of recovery in regional economies across the natio...
Fighting to Keep Jobs in California image

Fighting to Keep Jobs in California

The stories continue to mount about California’s worsening business climate and the exodus of key companies, investors and top talent. And the as...
Business Climate Woes Weigh Heavily image

Business Climate Woes Weigh Heavily

Beyond the hard data and growing anecdotal evidence of departing companies, declining investment, lost jobs and shrinking population, California’...
Declining Population Signals More Trouble for Economy image

Declining Population Signals More Trouble for Economy

New data released Wednesday by the California Department of Finance shows the nine-county Bay Area total population stagnating between July 2019 an...
Small Business Getting Walloped by Pandemic Closures image

Small Business Getting Walloped by Pandemic Closures

As the state of California faces new public health orders to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, a new Small Business Majority scientific poll release...
Was 2019 the Final Year of a Dominant Decade for the Bay Area? image

Was 2019 the Final Year of a Dominant Decade for the Bay Area?

Newly released data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis for 2019 reveals a slowing GDP picture for the region, one that is expected to slow even f...
Labor Force Numbers Plummet in High-Cost Metro Areas image

Labor Force Numbers Plummet in High-Cost Metro Areas

New data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics provides finer detail on the potential long-term economic destruction caused by the COVID-19 pa...
What Does Higher Education in the Bay Area Look Like Post-Pandemic? image

What Does Higher Education in the Bay Area Look Like Post-Pandemic?

The Bay Area has one of the most highly educated populations in the nation with 49% of people over the age of 25 holding a bachelor’s degree (wel...
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