Utah’s decade long expansion, the longest on record, ended in 2020 with the emergence of COVID-19. The public health crisis presented the greatest challenge to the Utah economy since the Great Recession. In the early[...]
"You may not be interested in the virus, but the virus is interested in you.” This modified Leo Tolstoy quote summarizes much of 2020 and the start of 2021. COVID-19 came seemingly from out of[...]
Notwithstanding having one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country under COVID-19, unemployment in Utah since the beginning of the pandemic has been stark. In only six weeks, Utah’s unemployment rate jumped from a[...]
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By: Dr. Pamela Perlich, PhD By: Effie Van Noy Today, the U.S. Census Bureau[...]
Pictured above (left to right): Dr. Abe Bakhsheshy, director and professor of the Daniels Fund[...]