Halloween was a special treat for all of us at CVEP. We presented our annual Economic Summit live after 2 years of virtual summits due to COVID precautions. You could feel the excitement in the room from getting to meet in person once again. For the next several Data Digests I will be presenting highlights [...]
This Data Digest will be the last in a series of “sneak peeks” of our soon-to-be-released 2022 Greater Palm Springs Economic Report. Once again, we encourage you to attend our annual Economic Summit on October 31, the preeminent business event in the Coachella Valley. Our Summit economist, Dr. Manfred Keil, will discuss the impacts of [...]
It’s off to the printers! We’re very excited to debut our latest Economic report at the 18th Annual Greater Palm Springs Summit on Monday, October 31st. We’ve revamped our report with nearly 50 pages of invaluable economic and demographic data. Today’s digest is another sneak peek of useful data and information packed into our report. How [...]
Last time we previewed extensive household income data for the Coachella Valley that will be presented at our Annual Greater Palm Springs Summit. Today we dig deeper with GIS to study these data more closely. Mapping income at large-scale uncovers patterns of income differences across the valley. We often make the mistake of looking singularly [...]
Today we’re giving you a sneak peek at what you will see at our upcoming 18th Annual Greater Palm Springs Summit. We are delighted to host this preeminent event live once again on October 31, 9 am-11 am, at the JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa in Palm Desert. We encourage you to attend [...]
Disasters disproportionately affect individuals and households. As we have learned over these past 2 plus years, the adverse effects of COVID-19 correlate with particular individual and household attributes. Fires, heatwaves, flooding, and the like affect populations differently. The US Census launched the Community Resilience Estimates to track communities typically at-risk during disasters. Today’s Data Digest [...]
A recent headline from a Desert Sun story dramatically summarized the current housing crisis: “‘There’s no place to go’: Coachella Valley rents skyrocket, squeezing working class.” According to the article, “rents in a majority of Coachella Valley Cities have grown between roughly 45% and 55% over the last three years.” At the same time, wages [...]
Innovation is a key tenet of CVEP’s mission. Here in the US, innovation is rewarded in myriad ways. One example for small businesses and entrepreneurs is America’s Seed Fund. This program awards grants of up to $1M through two specific programs. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants enable small businesses to “explore their technological potential [...]
So much is happening now – a pandemic, inflation, major supreme court rulings. How you prioritize or interpret these major events may well depend on your generation. Perhaps you are a baby boomer, well into retirement with its associated concerns. Maybe you were born after 1999, a Gen Z, and have an entirely different perspective [...]
As the efforts to build a student services building for the Cal State San Bernardino Palm Desert campus pick up steam, we thought it imperative to reinforce the need for a permanent 4-year university in the Coachella Valley. While the common perception is that our valley comprises mostly seniors and retirees, there is a large [...]
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