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The Brookings Institution recently released the 2024 Metro Monitor, an easy-to-use tool to look at how regional economies have been performing over the last decade in five broad categories.
Overall, the Louisville region’s performance was modest, ranking primarily in the middle of the 54 largest metro areas on measures of growth, prosperity, racial inclusion, and geographic inclusion. The region did score relatively high, 5th among metro areas, on measures of overall inclusion.
The economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic has reverberated throughout the world. The Louisville region’s economy has also suffered as people and businesses reacted to the public health crisis.
In this post, we review the data from throughout 2020 to see the economic impact in the local economy. The recovery since the depths of the pandemic has been uneven across sectors and unequal for different workers.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, there are many people who continue to go to work each day to keep us all safe and fed. Workers in the frontline industries responding to the pandemic are critically important to getting our community through these uncertain times. In this post, we take a look at the characteristics of the workers who are helping to keep buildings clean, provide access to the goods we all need, and caring for the sick and vulnerable.
