Chances are you’ve heard it at least once or maybe even said it yourself: “I took a pay cut to come to Austin.” The labor market in Austin can be ruthless. The metropolitan area is adding 50,000-60,000 people per year–roughly …
Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority launched Austin’s foray into passenger rail last week with the opening of the Capital MetroRail Red Line between Leander and Austin. I’ve been following ridership statistics the agency has been posting on Twitter @CapMetroRail and, predictably, the …
Brian Kelsey is an Austin-based economic development consultant and former senior policy advisor at the U.S. Economic Development Administration in Washington, DC. Civic Analytics is his blog about data-driven analysis for understanding community and economic trends. Views expressed here are his own.
