Economic Development

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Diving Into Occupation-Level Data: A Focus on Engineering

We continue our fall blog series exploring various occupations and their connection to the academic credentials being awarded by Texas colleges and universities. Previous posts have looked at broad trends in terms of projected growth occupations, as well as reviewing supply-and-demand gaps in the projected highest growth occupations (numeric and percentage). In this post, we…

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The Importance of Context in Labor Market Data and Analysis

Our fourth post in this fall blog series on connecting jobs and academic programs in Texas builds on previous work that showed Texas is forecasted to have the highest number of jobs added to its economy by 2034 when compared to other states in America. Our last post focused on the “General and Operations Managers Occupation” group, finding…

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Connecting Credentials with Occupations: Calculating the Gaps

We continue with our fall blog series where we are exploring the future of jobs in Texas. Previous blog posts showed that Texas is forecasted to have the highest number of jobs added to its economy by 2034 when compared to other states in America, and that the “Management” occupation group is set to have the highest…

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Not All Growth is Created Equal: Occupation-level Trends in Texas

In our first post of this new series, we saw that Texas is forecasted to have the highest number of jobs added to its economy by 2034 when compared to other states in America. The 2.8-million job increase from the actual 13.9 million jobs in 2022 to the predicted 16.8 million jobs in 2034 places Texas…

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Top of the Heap: Texas’ Bright Future in the Job Market

With the start of the 2024-2025 academic year, most people in education view life from the perspective of new beginnings. However, for millions of students across the country, the start of the fall semester actually means their college-level course of study is coming to a close. For these students, they will be hitting the full-time…

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Measuring “Quality of Life”: Where Does Texas Rank?

In the past two blog posts, we have looked at data that have painted the state of Texas in a very good light in terms of overall rankings for top states for business and a quality workforce. One of the areas in which Texas has not fared well has been in the “Quality of Life”…

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Connection Between a Quality Workforce and A State’s Success

The connection between a quality workforce and the success of a state is unquestioned. In our previous blog post, we introduced America’s Top States for Business study from 2022. Throughout the 14 years of the CNBC study, Texas has had the best average ranking of 2.2 across all years in the data. However, in the last…

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Top States for Business: Where Does Texas Rank?

Throughout our current blog series, we have primarily sought to better understand the factors that have and will continue to influence enrollment in higher education in Texas. We now want to connect the successful preparation of college and university students to real-world outcomes at the state level. To this end, we turn our attention to CNBC’s…