Where global trade has the biggest impact on workers (Joseph Parilla, Mark Muro, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2016/12/14/where-global-trade-has-the-biggest-impact-on-workers/

Growth, carbon, and Trump: States are “decoupling” economic growth from emissions growth (Devashree Saha, Mark Muro, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2016/12/08/decoupling-economic-growth-from-emissions-growth/

Growth, carbon, and Trump: State progress and drift on economic growth and emissions ‘decoupling’ (Devashree Saha, Mark Muro, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/growth-carbon-and-trump-state-progress-and-drift-on-economic-growth-and-emissions-decoupling/

Another Clinton-Trump divide: High-output America vs low-output America (Mark Muro, Sifan Liu, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2016/11/29/another-clinton-trump-divide-high-output-america-vs-low-output-america/

Why Trump’s factory job promises won’t pan out—in one chart (Mark Muro, Sifan Liu, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2016/11/21/why-trumps-factory-job-promises-wont-pan-out-in-one-chart/

The gig economy: Complement or cannibal? (Mark Muro, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2016/11/17/the-gig-economy-complement-or-cannibal/

Erie’s Rust Belt activism (Mark Muro, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2016/09/15/eries-rust-belt-activism/

Economic inclusion requires a robust advanced sector, but too few of these industries are growing (Mark Muro, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/2016/08/04/economic-inclusion-requires-a-robust-advanced-sector-but-too-few-of-these-industries-are-growing/

America’s advanced industries: New trends (Mark Muro, Siddharth Kulkarni, David M. Hart, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/americas-advanced-industries-new-trends/

Look to advanced industries to help drive productivity gains (Mark Muro, Brookings)

The nation’s persistently weak productivity growth continues to cast a pall. Without faster gains neither the middle class nor the less well-off will see an increase in standard of living or sufficient income growth. And yet, little consensus exists on what to do about the problem, or whether much can be done.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/07/21-productivity-gap-advanced-industries-muro

Can the Internet of Things help renew Rust Belt cities? (Mark Muro, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/06/14-internet-of-things-rust-belt-muro

Rooftop solar: Net metering is a net benefit (Mark Muro, Devashree Saha, Brookings)

Rooftop solar is booming in U.S. cities

http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2016/05/23-rooftop-solar-net-metering-muro-saha

Hacking the advanced industries skills system (Mark Muro, Brookings)

Waves of digital technology are remaking America’s advanced industries—those industries like auto, aerospace, and medical device manufacturing that depend on high levels of R&D investment and sizable STEM-knowledgeable workforces. A sign of the times: More software application developer job openings were posted in Michigan in the last five years than mechanical engineering jobs, according to Brookings analysis of data from Burning Glass Technologies.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/05/10-advanced-industries-skill-system-muro

Funding economic change with fracking revenues (Mark Muro, Devashree Saha, Brookings)

First, the fracking boom strained state and local governments as unconventional oil and gas development generated population spikes, heavy truck traffic, and new service demands.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/04/25-funding-economic-change-fracking-muro-saha

Permanent trust funds: Funding economic change with fracking revenues (Devashree Saha, Mark Muro, Brookings)

The recent boom and bust of unconventional oil and gas development, or “fracking,” has reopened serious questions about resource management in many U.S. states. While the oil and gas boom generated revenue, jobs, and economic development, the recent bust has adversely impacted state budgets due to declining industry investments in exploration and production and job cuts.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2016/04/19-permanent-trust-funds-fracking-revenues-saha-muro

Adjusting to economic shocks tougher than thought (Mark Muro, Brookings)

The mathematical models of economic theory have always sacrificed a bit of on-the-ground accuracy for what has been assumed to be a larger measure of insight. Work on how local labor markets respond to shocks like mass layoff events and recessions is a case in point. While the near-term pain of these shocks has raised more and more questions, the conventional wisdom of a relatively benign “adjustment” period over the medium-term has largely survived. The general consensus: Workers and local economies will adjust. Dislocated workers will leave distressed regions and move to healthier ones. Jobless rates will revert to the mean.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/04/18-economic-shocks-muro

Busted: State budgets feel fracking crash (Devashree Saha, Mark Muro, Brookings)

In a previous blog, we showed how declining oil and gas rig counts portend more job cuts in the fracking patch. Now let’s look at the budget side of the problem, which provides more evidence that resource extraction-oriented states really do need to “remake economic development,” as our colleague Amy Liu has written.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/04/14-state-budgets-fracking-crash-saha-muro

Rigged: Declining U.S. oil and gas rigs forecast job pain (Devashree Saha, Mark Muro, Brookings)

Oil and gas prices remain at rock-bottom, and the job impacts are growing. Bureau of Labor Statistics data report that employment in oil and gas extraction and support activities in the country has contracted by 18 percent over the past year alone.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/03/16-declining-us-oil-gas-rigs-saha-muro

Voter anger explained—in one chart (Mark Muro, Siddharth Kulkarni, Brookings)

That a lot of voters are angry this year is a truism. What’s less clear as the campaigns head for big states like Ohio and Florida is the source of the anger

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/03/15-voter-anger-explained-muro-kulkarni

Building manufacturing communities for the long haul (Mark Muro, Brookings)

The National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) institutes have rightly emerged as centerpieces of the nation’s push to increase the competitiveness of America’s advanced manufacturing sector. Through the program the nation is slowly building a robust network of industry-university collaboration hubs. If all goes well the centers will soon solve critical manufacturing technology problems and drive necessary American gains in advanced manufacturing.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/02/18-building-manufacturing-communities-muro