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1 month ago | 
brookings.edu | Manann Donoghoe |Andre Perry
The increasing impacts of climate change and extreme weather events such as hurricanes, floods, and wildfires present a real threat to American businesses. Data released late last year from the Census Bureau’s Annual Business Survey (ABS) shows that nationally, 9.8% of businesses experienced monetary loss because of extreme weather in 2022, the most recent year for which data is available.
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2 months ago | 
brookings.edu | Andre Perry |Hannah Stephens |Manann Donoghoe
Home Driving prosperity: How Black-owned businesses fueled recent economic growth After the COVID-19 pandemic’s initial shocks to business owners, entrepreneurship bounced back, with the number of new business applications booming since 2020.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Manann Donoghoe |William H. Frey |Annelies Goger |Joseph Kane
As Election Day unfolded, speculation swirled about what a new administration in Washington might mean for cities, metropolitan areas, and communities across the nation. Over the past four years, President Biden’s administration ushered in unprecedented federal investments in industries, infrastructure, clean energy, and more. Now, the election results offer a clearer sense of the future for the place-based, locally led solutions that state and local leaders have championed in recent years.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Andre Perry |Manann Donoghoe
The advantages of a strong economy, such as accumulated household wealth, are reinvested into fostering future growth through investments in new assets, including small businesses. When a country prospers, it has more resources to innovate, produce goods and services, start businesses, and increase well-being.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Andre Perry |Hannah Stephens |Manann Donoghoe |Anthony Fiano
This Tuesday’s election saw the culmination of Republicans’ long-standing effort to attract people of color, with the party tapping into shared feelings of political disenfranchisement and abandonment between working-class Black, white, and Latino or Hispanic voters without college degrees.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Manann Donoghoe
Earlier this year, we hit a milestone that should get everyone’s attention: July 2024 marked the first full 12-month period in which global temperatures averaged 1.64 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial-era temperatures. For the U.S., the temperature increase has brought a more unstable climate with frequent and increasingly compounding disasters, from hurricanes and flooding to extreme heat.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Maya Garg |Glencora Haskins |Mayu Takeuchi |Manann Donoghoe
For over 50 years, a lack of federal investment in critical infrastructure has remained the status quo.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Manann Donoghoe
An increasing number of financial market actors, including those in the private and public sectors as well as regulators, are reckoning with how to scale climate finance in rapid, cost-efficient ways that advance climate equity. While there is a body of research on climate finance for decarbonization, there has been comparatively little research on what role financial markets could and should play in advancing climate equity.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Manann Donoghoe |Andre Perry
While all attention has turned to the attempted Trump assassination, in the southern United States, the ripple effects of a devastating natural disaster are still occurring. Houston residents, who were already impacted by Hurricane Beryl, are facing a severe heat wave amplifying the damages of the hurricane.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Andre Perry |Manann Donoghoe
Historically, residents of down-at-heel neighborhoods have been given little reason to love revitalization efforts. Too often, well intentioned renewal programs and investor-led development ended up forcing them from their homes. The challenges facing these neighborhoods, especially those with Black majority populations, are formidable, rooted in years of racially biased policies like redlining.
