Economy

A new brief from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute this week highlights the benefits of optimizing land use at transit stations, with a parti...

The California tax machine is running at full throttle. Gov. Newsom today unveiled his May budget revision, and the numbers are gob smacking. There...

California’s economic competitiveness would get a big boost under legislation (SB 1951, Grayson) the Bay Area Council is supporting to exempt man...

The Bay Area Council Government Relations Committee held a special meeting with Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-Sacramento) on Wednesday (April 20) a...

An analysis released this week (April 13) by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute found that technology jobs are as important to local economies...

San Francisco Mayor London Breed this week announced commitments by major employers to return to in-person work during the month of March and help ...

There was a time when people were California dreamin’ and flocking to the Golden State with flowers in their hair. Not so much these days. Califo...

Though California’s joblessness peaked at 16.4 percent in April 2020, our state’s unemployment rate remains the highest in the nation at 6.5 pe...

The Bay Area tech economy is much more than companies building new software off lines of code. Advanced manufacturing is also producing rapid emplo...

For decades California has faced an infrastructure financing deficit, as federal and state support has declined and counties have become more depen...