On September 24, 2026, the Economic Innovation Group submitted a comment letter to the Department of Homeland Security in response to its proposed rule, Fee for Certain H-1B Petitions. The letter ...

The 2025 Reconciliation Act calls on governors to act in summer 2026 by nominating one-quarter of their low-income census tracts for Opportunity Zone (OZ) status. This guide is intended to help ...

The tax-advantaged retirement savings system in the United States is one of the most effective wealth-building programs in the world. Too many working Americans, however, find themselves on the ...

Opportunity Zones have proven they can move capital and reach communities. More than $112 billion in OZ equity was deployed into the first round of designated census tracts through the end of 2024, ...

Over the first six months of 2023, applications to start a business likely to hire employees outpaced last year's first half-year amount by more than 7 percent. Assuming the current trend holds, then ...

Though large urban counties have not yet rebounded from large population outflows experienced in 2020 and 2021, they did nearly halt overall population loss in 2022, buoyed by more normal rates of ...

The 2010s was a decade of population decline or stagnation for many parts of the country as national population growth reached historic lows and the legal immigration pipeline slowed to a trickle. New ...

Just in time to inform governors’ work nominating the next round of Opportunity Zone (OZ) census tracts this summer, the Treasury Department has released new data reporting that federal OZ tax ...

In absence of time-consuming commutes, remote workers—particularly those living with children—are spending more time on childcare and housework. This increased flexibility and time helped boost birth ...

Donald Trump won 93 percent of rural counties in the 2024 election — not just the highest share of any Republican presidential candidate this century, but also an improvement on his own performance in ...

The pandemic ushered in a period of huge disruption to American life, altering how and where people across the United States live. The U.S. Census Bureau’s recently released 2022 county population ...

Washington, D.C. – A new working paper from the Economic Innovation Group (EIG) provides the first quantitative evidence that the Opportunity Zones (OZ) incentive has significantly boosted housing ...