There is a childcare crisis in the US. There are too few workers, and it costs too much. Fixing it is probably the easiest bang-for-the buck policy move to raise US productivity. Yet no candidate mentions this issue which impacts ~40% of US households. h/t Diane Swonk

Map of where every North American player in NHL history was born.

Best of luck Stephen Kinsella as new economics adviser to Simon Harris Business at UL University Of Limerick independent.ie/business/irish…

Reasons why I believe PNC Park is the greatest MLB ballpark ever built. A 🧵

#ICYMI: The Northeast and Midwest had the nation’s largest share of counties with low uninsured rates. Get more #CensusData from our Small Area Health Insurance Estimates and check out #data for your state and county with our interactive #DataViz. ➡️ census.gov/newsroom/press…

People are watching Minneapolis Airport on FlightAware to see if Tim Walz is the VP pick — as if a midwesterner wouldn’t pack their car with 18 hours worth of snacks and leave at a sensible 3am to beat the traffic

US statistical agencies are probably the most impressive in the world. The fact that they schedule and perform so many data revisions, in a transparent manner, furthers my confidence that they strive to produce accurate information.

It’s like Missouri’s two biggest cities are plotting their escape

The Whittier Tunnel in Alaska is the longest highway tunnel in North America with a length of 2.5 Miles (4 km). It's also the only land access to the town, where nearly the entire population lives in a single apartment building.

Keith Waters, assistant director of the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University: "Tech companies today often hire people who work remotely, he said, so overall hiring in the tech industry has slowed in recent years in Northern Virginia"

Breaking news from East-Central Illinois

It is election season & food prices have been front and center. In the last few weeks, both presidential candidates have promised to pursue policies to bring food prices down. So, what do consumers think? farmdoc daily has the latest #GFAPS results: farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2024/08/loweri…

The Importance of Off-Farm Income to the Agricultural Economy: "While growing rural & urban economic interdependence can be hard to see at times, an appreciation of this dynamic relationship is vital to informing policies" [video] youtube.com/watch?v=cde9vS…

Giving all our employees the day off to celebrate Labor Day. #LaborDay

Which jobs will grow fastest? Renewable energy, healthcare, and tech jobs, say BLS-Labor Statistics projections. Jobs will skew more toward high-wage, high-education sectors. New blogpost and thread. jedkolko.com/2024/09/03/the…

'Go Bills' is the Western New York Aloha.

🚨🚨🚨 New 2023 Census ACS data are out this morning! The best ACS proxy for immigration hit a recent high in 2023: 1.7m foreign-born U.S. residents who lived abroad one year ago. But this doesn't solve an ongoing debate over measuring immigration levels. 🧵

Perhaps the most user-friendly tool is the Mable/Geocorr engine, which lets you create custom crosswalks between lots of pairs of geographies. mcdc.missouri.edu/applications/g…

And a reminder that your Census State Data Center is a resource available to you.