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If you want to be a part of a thriving community that will allow you to be active and engaged well into your retirement years, where would that be? The Milken Institute recently released the 2016 Best Cities for Successful...

Productivity is a key driver of our standard of living. It contributes to rising wages and income, as well as increased leisure time. Measured by output per worker hour, productivity increases when we find new and better ways to produce...

How did the Tucson economy perform last year? Compiling and summarizing all the relevant data can be daunting. However, the MAP Dashboard makes the process quick and informative. From the Dashboard, we know that the Tucson economy improved in 2016...

How healthy is your neighborhood? Are your neighbors physically active? How do they report their mental and physical health? How often do they visit the doctor? Thanks to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)...

In 2015, American Indians living in Arizona fared significantly better than the state average in the reported number of incidents of lung cancer, lower respiratory diseases, and Alzheimer’s, according to a report published by the Arizona Department of Health Services...

Tucsonans engaged in more leisure-time physical activity than the average U.S. resident, according to data from the 500 Cities Project. This report focuses on city-level data, which differs from the county-level aggregations that make up Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) data...

Arizona’s public university graduates contribute significantly to the state economy. Indeed, the 271,197 graduates during the past 26 years that worked in the state in 2015 earned $15.7 billion in wages and are estimated to have paid $1.1 billion in...

Arizona ranked 23 rd in its ability to create high-paying and future-proofed jobs in 2016, down four places from 2014. Arizona remained among the second tier of states according to the Milken Institute’s State Technology and Science Index. The index...

Have you ever wondered how Tucson’s wages fare when compared to other metropolitan areas around the West or which occupations in Tucson earn the most, the least? Tucson’s median wage for all occupations in 2015 was $33,000, which ranked 10...