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The Boyd Center conducts research on behalf of multiple public entities to reveal key insights about the economy in Tennessee and across the nation, as well as the efficacy of public programs.

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Tennessee State Data Center

The Tennessee State Data Center, housed within the Boyd Center, disseminates data from the U.S. Census Bureau and is a designated State Data Center.

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Three-fourths of employers who responded to our Summer 2024 Business Leaders Survey still offer higher wages to combat inflation, but that’s down from 82% in the Winter 2024 survey. Two-thirds of those surveyed said they are charging customers higher prices or seeking to lower costs, compared to 73% in January, and the number of employers using AI increased six percent to 56% this summer. Only 6.5% of business leaders think there is any meaningful chance of recession this year in the U.S., and over three-quarters think there’s a less than 50% chance of it happening. We summarize key themes that emerge in our Summer 2024 report.

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2025 Economic Report to the Governor

Tennessee forecasts, current as of December 2024, are based on an array of assumptions, particularly at the national level, which are described in Chapter One. Chapter Two details evaluations for major sectors of the Tennessee economy and presents the short-run and long-run outlook for the state economy, with an agriculture section provided by the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture. Finally, Chapter Three provides an assessment of artificial intelligence and how it could affect the economy in the U.S. and in Tennessee.

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Tennessee’s Navigate Reconnect, 2024 Annual Report

Since 2019, Navigate Reconnect has been Tennessee’s primary model of college coaching and advising for independent and over-25 students in Tennessee. Navigate Reconnect differs from most post-secondary advising programs by focusing on prospective students who are not yet enrolled in college, and who are either financially independent from their parents or over age 25. For the first annual Navigate Reconnect report, we combined program records with state administrative data to understand the rate at which Reconnectors enroll and persist in college and complete credentials.

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2022-2070 Population Projections

Every two years, the Boyd Center publishes population projections for Tennessee’s 95 counties. The data includes forecasted population, age, race/Hispanic ethnicity and sex for each county in the state.

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Impact of TennCare

The Boyd Center contracts with the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration to conduct an annual survey of Tennessee residents in order to ascertain their insurance status and use of medical facilities.

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Don Bruce

Boyd Distinguished Professor

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Celeste Carruthers

William F. Fox Distinguished Professor of Labor Economics

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Matthew Harris

Boyd Distinguished Professor of Health Economics, Dr. Mile Stahl PEMBA Faculty Fellow (2017-2022-2023)

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Larry Kessler

Research Associate Professor

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Seth Neller

Research Assistant Professor

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Boyd Center Report Shows Tennessee’s Economy to Surpass U.S. Growth in 2025

According to Haslam’s Boyd Center, Tennessee’s economic growth will outpace the rest of the U.S. in 2025.

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