Regional Matters
According to the latest census data, the share of Americans living in rural areas continued to decline over the past decade, while urban areas have grown.
In Florence County, the Southeastern Institute of Manufacturing Technology and its Gould Business Incubator are fostering an entrepreneurial ecosystem and fueling small business development in South Carolina.
In a tight labor market, Fifth District firms struggle to attract qualified workers.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics started releasing state-level data from the Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), giving a unique perspective on labor demand around our District.
While all sectors of higher education have experienced declines, community colleges have been hardest hit: this fall, community college enrollment declined significantly for the second consecutive year.
Amid labor shortages and supply side disruptions, firms are struggling to fully meet demand and many reported they expect this issue to persist.
Heirs' property, land passed through generations without a clear title, is an unstable form of landownership that can lead to lost capital and wealth.
The Danville region in Virginia has moved the needle on early childhood education and now has an ecosystem in place to help address future challenges.
The labor force was pushed into a massive remote work experiment in 2020. What are employers in the Fifth District planning, and what challenges do they anticipate?
This post explores lagged recovery in labor force participation for Black and Hispanic women that started at the onset of the COVID-19 recession.