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Best-Performing Cities 2020: Where America’s Jobs Are Created and Sustained
About Best-Performing Cities How did US regional economies perform recently? What are the key factors driving their growth and decline? The Milken Institute’s Best-Performing Cities series has tracked the economic performance of US metros for two decades using job, wage and salary, and high-tech…
The 50 Best U.S. Cities for Starting a Business in 2020
What any business--and any city--can learn from the best places for startups in the U.S. We have the key to the city--or 50 cities, to be exact. For the 2020 Surge Cities index, Inc. and innovation policy company Startup Genome analyzed troves of data on seven essential indicators--…
State Farm® & Arizona State University Announce Public-Private Partnership
TEMPE, Ariz., Feb. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- State Farm and Arizona State University today announced the introduction of a new education and career development program called Pathways for the Future. The program will provide a personalized approach to higher education with a focus on innovative…
An app today keeps the doctor’s forms away
Phoenix Children’s Hospital and ASU students partner to create an app that replaces outdated medical history forms, making patient paperwork a breeze and lightening doctors’ loads. ASU students Rakshith Subramanyam (left) and Nikhil Agarwal (right) work on the web app. Photo credit: Andy DeLisle…
ASU Cronkite School gets funding from Google initiative
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona State University has won funding from Google for a digital story project. The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication announced Tuesday that its "Interactive Story Wall" was selected by the Google News Initiative. Cronkite students are developing a "wall…