33 Things Economic Developers Need to Know This Week
The stories Dane thinks you need to see. October 3, 2024 edition.
Welcome to this week's issue of What Economic Developers Need to Know This Week, where we explore the evolving dynamics of our economy.
This week we have 33 tools, stories, graphics, charts, and videos that I think you'll find informative, useful, inspiring, and perhaps even humorous. Some are economic development related directly, and some only indirectly. 🤔
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1) Economic Development and Developers in the News # 167 - Econ dev news from 26 economic development executives and organizations in 14 states.
2) Podcast # 142: Economic Strategies in Maine with Anne Krieg - There's more to economic development than TIFs and spreadsheets
3) Navigating EDA Grants for Economic Development with Beka Shiver - From Application to Implementation: Mastering the EDA Grant Process.
4) Rethinking GIS with AI: From Maps to Insights, Sitehunt’s New Take on GIS Data.
5) Why Americans shop at farmers’ markets
6) A look at regional grocery chains:
7) Median income by state (adjusted for cost of living):
8) Here's a look at the same map, but this time with the UK:
9) A look home affordability by county:
10) These seven mega regions contain about 53% of the US population:
11) Cost of living, by state:
12) Counties with fewer than 10,000 people. The counties with fewer than 5,000 in red:
13) Recent average wage growth:
14) States by median household income adjusted for cost of living:
15) Yay! A new draft of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology's "Digital Identity Guidelines" takes steps to eliminate harmful password management practices, such as requiring users to periodically change their passwords. The recommendations, mandatory for US federal government entities and serving as guidelines for others, also ban "composition rules" like requiring a mix of capital letters, numbers, and punctuation marks, as these practices often lead to weaker, more formulaic passwords.
