Urban Regeneration

Pieces

• ExplainerRegional Development

  How a tax-increment financing district works

  A TIF district pays for public works out of the tax growth those works are meant to cause. By the end you will know what the district captures, who gives it up, and what the argument between supporters and critics is actually about.

  By CEFA Brief Editors January 5, 2026

• PerspectivesLabor Markets

  Healthcare employs more people at higher median pay than production work, which does not mean a transition has held anywhere

  Summed across the fifty-one jurisdictions in the 2025 occupational file, healthcare practitioners outnumber production workers by 1,258,080, and in all fifty-one the practitioner median wage is the higher of the two. The jurisdiction most concentrated in that work has the third-lowest median wage of the fifty-one.

  By Jag DeSaint January 17, 2025