Center for Economic and Business Research
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| Here’s how many Whatcom County jobs offer annual salaries of $100,000 or more | Whatcom County also trails the national average in terms of adding six-figure salaries. Between 2015-2018, the percentage increase of that salary level rose 79.7%; the national average increase for the same period was 84.6%. One factor for Whatcom’s slower increase is that this area has… |
2020-03-09 | |
| Coronavirus is taking a toll on the Puget Sound-area economy, but how bad could it get? | Hart Hodges, an economist at Western Washington University and director of the Center for Economic and Business Research, said he will be watching for a similar dynamic among consumers. “If people do not go out to eat as much, restaurant owners and wait staff [will] see a drop in revenue… |
2020-03-09 | |
| Whatcom bankruptcies continue to drop, but are residents still financially stressed? | If household debt is rising in Whatcom County, that is something to monitor, said Hart Hodges, director at Western Washington University’s Center for Economic and Business Research. More debt can work if income is going up so that it can be serviced appropriately, and that can be a sign of… |
2020-02-14 | |
| Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities Names WWU a 2019 Innovation & Economic Prosperity Designee | 2019-11-13 | ||
| Whatcom’s unemployment rate is on the rise, but is that a bad sign for job market? | Hart Hodges agreed, saying more people seem to be moving here with a belief they can find work. Hodges is the co-director at the … |
2019-08-26 | |
| Whatcom County’s job growth is among the best in the U.S. Here’s why | On July 30 USA Today published a list of the metro areas with the best employment growth between May 2014 and May 2019. The… |
2019-08-05 | |
| How the candidates for mayor plan to solve Bellingham’s housing crisis | Bellingham’s 2018 Residential Survey Report, conducted by the … |
2019-07-02 | |
| Citywide survey shows homelessness and housing as top issues | Survey from WWU Center for Economic and Business Research |
2019-03-06 | |
| Snow preparation sales balanced out the snow slowdown for some Whatcom businesses | The businesses that have “experienced-based transactions” like movies, dinners or non-essential goods will most likely take a sales hit as a result of the storms, said James McCafferty in an email. McCafferty is the co-director at the … |
2019-02-19 | |
| Bellingham ranks well in economic study because of consistent growth across many jobs | The overall picture for Bellingham continues to be slow and steady growth, said Hart Hodges, director at the … |
2019-02-14 |