Tucson lags most of its Western peer metro in a key measure of people employed and those looking for work, according to the MAP Dashboard, a project of the Economic and Business Research Center at the University of Arizona Eller College of Management.
Tucson economy: Labor-force participation lags peers
Tucson lags most of its Western peer metro in a key measure of people employed and those looking for work, according to the MAP Dashboard, a project of the Economic and Business Research Center at the University of Arizona Eller College of Management.
Tucson ranked last among other Western cities for median teacher pay in 2021, says the University of Arizona's Making Action Possible Dashboard.
Rent costs in Tucson are among the lowest among its Western peers but are rising fast, University of Arizona economists say.
Arizona lags the U.S. and is in the middle of the pack among Western states for eighth-grade math scores, University of Arizona economists say.
Tucson ranked second-best among its Western peers but lagged the U.S. in the fourth quarter of 2022, University of Arizona economists say.
Tucson leads the nation, the state for patent activity, says the MAP Dashboard, a project of the University of Arizona's Economic and Business…
