ALBANY, NEW YORK – New U.S. Census Bureau data reveals the Albany-Schenectady-Troy metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is the nation’s fourth biggest attractor of greater New York City metro area workers who relocate for jobs, according to a Center for Economic Growth (CEG) analysis of U.S. Census Bureau Job-to-Job Flows Explorer
Since COVID-19-related job losses peaked in April, the education services, retail trade and other sectors in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy metropolitan statistical area (MSA) have slowly bounced back. However, as of July, hard-hit sectors such as leisure and hospitality and healthcare and social assistance have been slow to reduce their year-over-year losses
Several local startups received their first infusions of federal seed funding in fiscal 2019, pushing the Capital Region’s annual award total to $11.3 million, according to a Center for Economic Growth (CEG) analysis of U.S. Small Business Administration data. In 2019, 13 Capital Region small businesses received a total of
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Saratoga County is one of the state’s most resilient counties to weather-related disasters and disease outbreaks, based on its sizeable individual and household groups within the community that have the capacity and resources to overcome such hazardous events, according to a Center for Economic Growth analysis of new U.S. Census
See CEG’s latest industry attraction promotional reports on key industry clusters and regional/county profiles. Between 2015 and 2019, CEG promoted the Capital Region at 78 industry attraction events in 41 cities worldwide. While the coronavirus pandemic has temporarily halted CEG’s travel to conferences, we continue to represent the region at
In August 2018, Sonya Kim moved to the Capital Region from South Korea after her husband, a chemical engineer, was transferred from Momentive Performance Materials’ R&D center in Seoul to its headquarters in Waterford. She didn’t know anyone in the area, and, with two young children, the elementary school system
As we enter the summer and Phase 3 of the reopening of the Capital Region’s economy, we are starting to see glimmers of the “normal” way of life we knew before the coronavirus pandemic. People are at restaurants and beaches. We are getting haircuts and shopping at stores. At the
Demonstrating its resiliency, the Capital Region emerged from the first full month of the Coronavirus pandemic with not only the lowest unemployment rate among New York’s 10 economic development regions but also the 19th lowest among major commutersheds nationwide1, according to a Center for Economic Growth analysis of data from
Saratoga Springs and Cohoes were among New York’s top 10 fastest-growing cites in 2019. The region also had two top 10 fastest-growing towns and the state’s fastest-growing village, according to a Center for Economic Growth (CEG) of U.S. Census Bureau estimates. Cities In 2019, Saratoga Springs was the state’s
