We are happy to announce the release of the 2019 digital divide index. This updated version keeps the three scores you are familiar with: overall digital divide index, infrastructure/adoption, and socioeconomic. These scores still range from 0 to 100, where…

Written by Bertin Mbongo and Andrey Zhalnin. January is not over yet and PCRD can already check off one new year’s resolution our list: updating the IARC data dashboard! Found at iarcdatadashboard.com, this tool features data for each region in…

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed by the U.S. Congress in December 2017 included an important provision that brought focus to the economic challenges facing several communities still rebounding from the Great Recession of 2007-2009. Working in partnership with…

The Purdue Center for Regional Development has released a new resource as part of its Rural Indiana Stats (RIS) website that can prove valuable to economic and agricultural leaders across the state.  The new addition to the RIS site captures…