Economy

New data analyzed by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute provides another barometer of the region’s economic recovery. Traffic on Bay Area br...

Dangerous new legislation, AB1253, surfaced last week in Sacramento proposing a massive new personal income tax increase that will undermine Califo...

Following unprecedented job losses as a result of shelter in place orders, over a quarter of jobs had returned to the region by the end of June. Da...

State and local governments are facing a growing fiscal crisis as the COVID-19 shutdown (see below) starts to hit budgets. Gov. Newsom is projectin...

The COVID-19 shutdown cost Bay Area economy over half a million jobs in April – more than an eighth of all jobs in the region and representing th...

Shelter-in-place orders are proving critical in stemming the transmission of COVID-19, but they are also having a profound impact on the economy as...

The rapid pace in the escalation of the COVID-19 crisis in terms of both its health and economic effects has been unprecedented. The Bay Area Counc...

Expanding and deepening economic connections between California, the Bay Area-Silicon Valley and India was the focus of a weeklong (Jan. 12-18) del...

On Monday, the Bay Area Council Economic Institute organized the Tri-Valley 2040 Visioning Summit in partnership with the Innovation Tri-Valley Lea...

The U.S.-China trade war continues to ratchet up, but it’s not deterring the Bay Area Council’s work to expand and deepen trade and investment ...