An interactive map from the MetroTrends research team reveals the percent change in employment in 16 job sectors for the nation's top 100 metropolitan areas. Who has experienced the greatest growth in Manufacturing? Lansing, MI. Finance? Dallas, TX. Education and Health Services? Phoenix, AZ. The map will be updated monthly with new data. View the map.
A new report examines states' progress toward implementing the Affordable Care Act, and uses the Health Insurance Policy Simulation Model to detail changes in the number of uninsured, uncompensated care, Medicare enrollment and employer coverage for each state. Read more
Two budget experts examine the important budget events of 2011, from the House Republican budget and the president's response to the failure of the Supercommittee. An automatic across-the-board spending cut is supposed to result from that failure – the authors describe its effects on defense and nondefense spending. Read more
Who pays no income tax? How much will you pay in Social Security? Do surveillance cameras deter crime? These questions and others represented the most talked-about Urban Institute research this year in the media, debated on cable news, and reported around the nation. See the top five here.
The most-read research publications and commentaries on the UI web site this year reflect the nation's policy priorities and legislative debates from health care and social security to unemployment, taxes, and poverty. Visit the list
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