In my last blog , I discussed how one of the challenges with policy analysis is that it relies on data and effect estimates from other research. This means policy analysts need to be capable of ...

If you are a nonprofit executive, you are certainly familiar with the idea of a “strategic plan.” A group of board members get together, sometimes for a day or a weekend, to chart out a plan for the ...

While I was still in school, I worked as a guide on wilderness expeditions. As part of that job, I was a certified Wilderness First Responder. In that training there is a mantra about working from ...

This morning, Scioto Analysis, in partnership with The Democracy Collaborative, published The Economic Impact of Cleveland’s Music Industry. The report estimates that Cleveland’s music industry ...

A couple of weeks ago, Scioto Analysis published a cost-benefit analysis of data center policies in Ohio. We found that data ...

Often, governments, nonprofits, foundations, and associations have budgets to answer important questions but don’t know exactly what kind of study they need to answer them. I use $40,000 as an example ...

From this table, you can get an idea of which states rely the most on federal funding. For instance, let’s consider Alaska. Between national parks, conservation land, and military bases, 60% of Alaska ...

We live in a post-welfare reform world. In the 1990s, President Bill Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich worked together to reform welfare in the United States. A large part of the bargain struck ...

Unsurprisingly, the states that would need the most money to end poverty are the states with the largest populations. There is a huge dropoff between Florida and Ohio both in terms of the amount of ...

The top of the list is not a state at all, but the District of Columbia, where about one in five workers are employed by the federal government. This makes sense because DC is the nation’s capital and ...

Over the last two years, the biggest economic story has been very high levels of inflation in the United States and abroad. It may not have been as bad as inflation in the 1980’s, and it certainly was ...

Data centers have been one of the biggest news stories of the past year. Last month, my colleague Rob wrote about this trend: everyone is talking about data centers. For community members, worries ...