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Losing reliable county-level data leaves rural communities without the insights they need to grow, compete, and plan for the future. Protecting this data is essential to ensuring an equitable, informed path forward.
Discover how Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is turning brain drain into brain gain by leveraging the Global EIR program to attract international talent and fuel Simplify Business Consultancy.
From downtown placemaking to broadband planning and economic research, data-driven analysis remained at the heart of SBC’s work this past year.
The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally reshaped the way we live and work. One of the most significant changes has been the dramatic rise in remote work, allowing workers to decouple where they live from their employer’s location. This shift has impl
Only approximately 6% of high-tech businesses are located in rural counties, but some micropolitan areas have emerged as leaders in rural high-tech.
Geography often becomes a barrier for workers in rural America, particularly those of younger generations, as they feel driven to leave their communities to progress in their careers
What do rural Build to Scale winners have in common? To find the answer, SBC set out to see what the data says about our lessons learned supporting more than 30 Build to Scale applications, and created an interactive tool for you to explore.
Working with rural data can be challenging, but SBC's data team has some helpful tips to guide anyone seeking to map rural data.
Using SEC Form D data to identify which micropolitan areas have been hotbeds for venture capital investment.
In the final story of the Rural Aperture Project we turn our focus to rural communities that are most affected by various systemic inequities but who are nonetheless demonstrating signs of vitality and improvement.
