Thanks to NADO for inviting me to their annual training conference in San Diego – a welcome opportunity to do another Know Your Region training and escape the weather in Austin. The workshop focused on comprehensive economic development strategies (CEDS) …
I’ll be joining Hopeton Hay on Economic Perspectives on Monday at 5:30 PM. Hopeton is making valuable contributions to our understanding of economic and workforce issues facing African Americans in Austin. I learn something new and interesting every time we …
Slide 4 worries me. In 1999, at the apex of the go-go technology days, per capita income in the Austin region peaked at 110.4 percent of U.S. per capita income. By 2009, we had fallen to less than 91 percent, …
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.
