Downstream Strategies, an environmental consulting and policy analysis firm, published The Impact of Coal on the Virginia State Budget in 2012, finding that the coal mining industry was responsible for a net cost of 21.9 ...

Falling mobility is bad for the economy as people don’t move to economic opportunity. Ohio’s poor record on attracting net migration is a key reason for why the state’s job growth lags the nation, but it explains OH’s low ...

The policy brief provides a comparison of rural and urban communities in the U.S. and Ohio over the last decade. In addition, it provides a discussion of differences across rural communities in Ohio and efforts to strengthen ...