MOScout Sunday6: Coincident Index - Dorm$ - Tech Hubs - Broadbanding MO and more...

1. Coincident Index for Missouri doesn’t look great.  “The coincident indexes combine four state-level indicators to summarize current economic conditions in a single statistic. The four state-level variables in each coincident index are nonfarm payroll employment, average hours worked in manufacturing by production workers, the unemployment rate, and wage and salary disbursements deflated by the consumer price index (U.S. city average). The trend for each state’s index is set to the trend of its gross domestic product (GDP), so long-term growth in the state’s index matches long-term growth in its GDP.”

Source: Philadelphia Federal Reserve.

2. Educational attainment level in Missouri.

Source: Statista.

3. Are dorms driving college costs?

Source: Wall Street Journal.

4. KC and STL both among Biggest Tech Hubs.

Source: Visual Capitalist.

5. As MO’s Department of Economic Development works to bring high-speed internet to everyone in Missouri, they believe they have enough federal funding to get the job done.

Source: MO DED.

6. Government expenditure as a percentage of GNP.

Source: Bank of America via Mike Zaccardi.

7. Home ownership is happening later.

Source: Terner Center.

8. While there’s no shortage of talk about illegal immigration, the legal immigration system is pretty broken.  We could be growing a lot faster in this country if we moved toward a freer labor market.  “This chart should make you go insane. This is the number of high skilled workers that want to work here. There is a cap at 85,000 slots that will be filled. We are actively shooting our future selves in the foot.”

Source: Aaron Levie.