I can't believe I started the 2024 Data Digests (Employment Profile of Coachella Valley Residents) without a map! Well, today's digest will rectify that. As I noted in the last digest, we usually use the first few digests of the new year to share socioeconomic data specific to the Coachella Valley. In 2024's first digest, [...]
On Monday, June 27, it became public that the California Assembly and Senate reached a budget agreement with Governor Gavin Newsom that includes $79 million for expanding the CSU San Bernardino Palm Desert Campus capacity to 4,000 students. These funds will serve as the foundation to build out our campus in a way that delivers [...]
Under the helm of our inimitable CEO, Joe Wallace, CVEP has persistently advocated for a fully utilized four-year college in our valley providing urgently needed local access to STEM degrees. Currently, the UC Riverside – Palm Desert and Cal State San Bernardino Palm Desert campuses are merely satellite campuses, underutilized and underrealized. This is especially [...]
Today we give you a preview of data you will find in our soon-to-be-published 2021 Greater Palm Springs Economic Report. Below is a sample of the nearly 50 tables and graphs to be found in the report. These resources cover a wide range of demographic and economic characteristics of the Coachella Valley. This graph displays [...]
In the summer of 2016, I began my doctoral-level academic journey. My destination was to more deeply understand the Coachella Valley economy. I wanted to determine what ailed our region and identify the steps we could individually and collectively take to improve our economy. I thought I had an excellent grasp of our market. As [...]
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