Indraneel Kumar, associate director of the Purdue Center for Regional Development (PCRD), has been assigned the new role of director of PCRD on May 1, 2024. Kumar has been with PCRD since its inception in 2005. His work has focused…
The Purdue Center for Regional Development (PCRD) has developed an online tool to present migration data across U.S. County and state level geographies. Migration data is provided by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) statistics of income (SOI) division. Data is…
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service (ERS) has been compiling a rural urban continuum code (RUCC) every ten years since 1983. This continuum distinguishes metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties by their population size, degree of urbanization, and…
The American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (ACS-5 Year) continues to expand its list of variables. In the latest iteration, the ACS 2018-2022 has added the variable “Median Earnings in the Past 12 Months (in 2022 Inflation-Adjusted Dollars) by Sex by…
The broadband landscape is very active nowadays. The federal Broadband Equity, Adoption, and Deployment (BEAD) and the Digital Equity programs are in full swing. This is in addition to the ongoing American Rescue Plan broadband infrastructure investments, additional federal programs…
What is your background? Cory: I studied Economics at Purdue University’s Daniels School of Business. I served as a Digital Fellow for the Purdue Center for Regional Development charged with the mission of closing the digital divide in rural and…
The Supply Chain Marketplace is designed to increase purchases by Indiana companies (parts, materials, goods & services) locally to improve the Indiana economy, find other local manufacturers to partner to produce enhanced products with added value, and enable EDCs to…
Last month, the United States Census Bureau released the five-year 2018-2022 American Community Survey, also known as the ACS. This survey captures a variety of information on U.S. residents and households, including variables related to the digital divide. Fortunately, we…