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New analysis tracks performance of state’s creative industries before, during, and after covid, revealing longer term direction

Labor shortages will be region’s key restraint on economic growth

Local wages are not rising enough to keep up with inflation

High fees for disposal and recycling can boost the sustainable effect under some circumstances

“In as few as six or eight questions, people are already answering in such a way that you’re worse off if you’re trying to predict real-world behavior”

Available labor supply likely to be among 2022’s biggest restraints on growth

Musician migration rates muted during pandemic, but interesting regional trends emerge

Labor shortage will place upward pressure on wages in 2022

UC Riverside has released its enrollment numbers for fall 2021, showing a record student population of 26,847. That represent a 1.6% increase from fall 2020, when 26,434 total undergraduate and graduate students were enrolled. The student population includes 40.8% low-income students and 54.7% first-generation students. Forty-one percent of students are...

Renewed spending on leisure, entertainment bodes well for downtown businesses

‘Hot’ IE housing market still has room to grow

Born from the pandemic, College Bigs, will count on nearly 150 UCR students to work with local high school mentees.

Startups backed by venture capital pay more taxes when organized as corporations versus LLCs

Region is outperforming along multiple measures

Research shows which types of updates and comments keep donations flowing

Weak spot: labor market lags other parts of the economy

Nearly 4,500 students participated in modified in-person commencement ceremonies.

Pandemic underscores essential quality of life need for arts, entertainment

Vaccine rollout, easing of public health mandates boosts local economic outlook

The vaccine passport is coming. The likelihood of a “passport” being required — or perhaps just requested — for travel, and to return to school and work, seems a certainty. New York state is testing a smartphone app that would verify vaccine status for entry into events. IBM is developing...