Investments in Illinois, North Carolina and Wisconsin are among new projects in an alternative protein market that ADM says could be valued at $125 billion by 2030.
Eagle Hill Consulting last week announced results of a nationwide poll on remote work that found 50% of respondents say they would consider looking for a new job should their employer reduce remote and hybrid work flexibility, with that proportion rising to 61% among GenZ workers. At the same time, 56% of workers say those who work more in the office than remotely are more likely to be successful in their jobs and 85% of workers say team building is managed better in person. Among other results, says the Arlington, Virginia-based consultancy, based on more than 1,400 responses, “employees say the benefits of returning to the workplace would include increased socialization (46%), the ability to leave work at work (35%), improved collaboration (33%) and more productivity (32%).”
Brownsville, Texas, home to SpaceX’s Starbase operation, is No. 1 among the 50 largest U.S. metro areas in economic mobility improvement for children born to low-income parents.
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The U.S. Census Bureau, in collaboration with Opportunity Insights, recently released new data on changes in mobility by county, birth cohort (1978-1992), race, class (parental income) and sex, as well as a new interactive module in the Opportunity Atlas, a project initially launched in 2018 that they describe as “a comprehensive census tract-level dataset of children’s outcomes in adulthood using data covering nearly the entire U.S. population.”
Among the avenues to explore is data showing which of the 50 most populous commuting zones demonstrate the most economic mobility for people born in those zones in 1978 vs. 1992. The average percent change in income was –4.2% across all 50. Only 12 regions, including five in Texas, showed positive growth:
New photography from Group of Architects (GOA) shows off the firm’s work on Uniview’s “micro city” headquarters campus in Hangzhou, China. “The site is nestled in Hangzhou’s key high-tech industrial zone, and it extends to the southern tip of an urban landscape axis,” says a GOA release. “Within the site, a large sunken garden connects to the urban park, serving as the district’s public green core … The design fosters an open and vibrant atmosphere for over 5,000 employees by providing diverse shared spaces.” What does the company do? Uniview manufactures video surveillance systems.
