Analyzing the Revival of Trade in Arizona, USA As the world enters the third year of the COVID-19 crisis, Arizona’s trade with the world – one of the key engines of economic growth – shows both troubling and encouraging developments...
Price Hikes and Electricity Cost in Arizona, USA We know that prices have increased over the last year. We have felt it in our pocketbooks at the grocery store, the lumber yard, and when car shopping. You may have even...
Infrastructure is the foundation of economic activity. It takes many forms, including highways and roads, water and sewer, telecommunications, airports, and border facilities. Many forms of infrastructure are meant to be widely and easily available to users. Funding for this...
The Making Action Possible (MAP) Dashboard has done it again! The Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) selected the MAP Dashboard for the 2021 Research Award for Data Collection, Dissemination, and Visualization. The C2ER program recognizes the contribution of...
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we work and travel. Will these changes become more permanent, or will we revert back to a pre-pandemic way of life? The Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey gives us a glimpse into how...
Watch the Recorded MAP Talk: The Impact of Trade Wars on Manufacturing Employment in Tucson, Arizona MSA Watch the recorded MAP Talk: The Impact of Trade Wars on Manufacturing Employment
The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted industries and occupations unequally. Since the beginning of the pandemic, it was strikingly clear that the travel and tourism sector would be disproportionally affected. This in turn has significant implications for...
The Trump administration made headlines when it increased trade barriers in 2018 and 2019. Those tariffs—the largest in over 75 years—are designed to help America’s ailing manufacturing sector. The U.S. lost 5.8 million manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2010. 1...
Mexico became the #1 trading partner of the U.S. in 2019, surpassing China for the first time ever. However, Mexico has long been Arizona’s #1 trading partner. As shown in Figure 1, Arizona exported $22.5 billion in goods to the...
Traffic congestion is one of those rare consensus issues: most people agree that it is a problem, that it costs individuals, business, and government money, and that it seems to keep getting worse despite attempted remedies. For example, Tucson averaged...
