March 09, 2021 (In Focus - CW 30) - Peter Reichard, President of the Utah Foundation joined ABC4’s Rosie Nguyen on the CW30 News at 7 p.m. for an IN FOCUS discussion to recap Utah’s 2021 legislative session. He discussed a few education bills they followed, what the $50 million approved for housing and homelessness will be used for, how air quality was addressed, and funding allotted for transportation.
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March 04, 2021 (Patch.com) - Peter Reichard: By coincidence, Utah Foundation went into 2020 with a study on telework already on our research agenda. When the economic shutdown came, we quickly released a report to assist employers suddenly struggling with the challenges of telework. Then there was our Utah Priorities Project, where we survey Utahns every four years to discover their top concerns and report on them. As it happened, Utah Foundation completed the survey in early March, when the … Continued
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March 01, 2021 (Salt Lake Tribune) - … Public opinion surveys conducted last year by the Deseret News and Hinckley Institute, by the Utah Foundation, and by Envision Utah all found a strong popular preference for public investment over tax cuts. Same thing with surveys this month by the Deseret News-Hinckley Institute again and by Voices for Utah Children…
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February 25, 2021 (KSL Radio) - Utah Foundation President Peter Reichard sat down with Salt Lake Chamber CEO Derek Miller to talk about how Utah Foundation zigged when the pandemic made the world zag. The Speaking on Business segment aired on KSL Radio.
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February 17, 2021 (UtahPolicy.com) - Boosting post-secondary educational attainment is critical to Utah’s future and the Utah Foundation has released a report exploring how to increase success in students who traditionally have been less likely to complete higher ed degrees. Key findings include: Utah’s population is changing. If the state’s post-secondary educational institutions do not respond to those changes, tens of thousands of Utahns may miss out on educational advancement in the coming decades. Engaging and re-engaging with adult learners … Continued
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February 09, 2021 (Salt Lake Tribune) - Utah Latinos are five times less likely than state residents overall to graduate from high school and half as likely to receive any higher education — so leaders should look hard at how to help turn that around, a new study says. The Utah Foundation, a nonprofit research group, issued “The State of Latinos in Utah,” requested by Hispanic civic, business and elected leaders, and funded in part by the Utah Division of Multicultural Affairs.
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February 05, 2021 (Telemundo Utah) - Un estudio publicado por “Utah Foundation” ha puesto en perspectiva donde la comunidad latina en Utah se encuentra en temas como la educación y la economía, muestra el gran impacto que la pandemia ha tenido en la calidad de vida de los hispanos. En el área de Glendale, se concentra una buena parte de nuestra comunidad que fue el foco de atención en el estudio, uno de los factores que se encontró ha detonado el … Continued
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February 04, 2021 (Fox 13) - A new report published by the Utah Foundation details the current state of Utah’s Hispanic and Latino population in categories like housing, income, employment and education. “El Estado de los Latinos en Utah: A look at Utah’s Hispanic/Latino Population” compared Utah’s Latino population to Utahns in general, as well as with Latinos living across the region. It found that Latinos in Utah have the highest median income in the Mountain States Region, but experience challenges … Continued
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February 05, 2021 (KUER) - The childhood poverty disparity between Hispanic kids and the general population in Utah is higher than any other state in the Mountain West. That’s based on a new report released Thursday by the Utah Foundation. They are a public research group. The report also found Hispanic Utahns tend to be younger than the general population but a third of them do not have a high school diploma. The news isn’t all bad. The foundation’s president … Continued
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January 31, 2021 (Enterprise - Utah's Business Journal) - The events of the past year have forced a major shift to telework in Utah, with important implications for traffic, air quality and growth, according to a new report from the Utah Foundation. The report, “The Way Home: The Shift to Telework and its Air Quality Ramifications,” focuses on how remote work relates to air quality in Utah, provides new insights gained during 2020 and looks toward the future interplay of remote work and air … Continued
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January 26, 2021 (UtahPolicy.com) - Are Utah’s Local Governments Optimizing their Use of Tax Incentives? In this edition of Utah Thrives” by Utah Foundation, they discuss the findings of Utah Foundation’s December 2020 report: Insights on Incentives: Optimizing Local Approaches to Tax Incentives in Utah. Listen here.
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January 26, 2021 (Deseret News) - Every couple of decades, the trajectory of modern history pivots on game-changing innovations: the rise of trains, planes and automobiles; the invention of the light bulb; the birth of television; the emergence of the PC; the dawn of the internet. We are due for another pivot, and it may have arrived in the form of a remote revolution. With the lockdowns of 2020, the worldwide embrace of telehealth, e-commerce, telemeetings, online education and telework suddenly … Continued
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January 26, 2021 (Utah Public Radio) - Shawn Teigen spoke with Utah Public Radio’s Tom Williams about Utah Foundation’s most recent telework report. They also touched on Utah Foundation’s homelessness research.
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January 15, 2021 (Fox 13) - Shawn Teigen interviewed with KSTU Fox 13’s Brian Champagne to talk about Utah Foundation’s second teleworking report.
January 14, 2021 (Cache Valley Daily) - On KVNU’s For the People program on Wednesday, Shawn Teigen, research director for the organization, was a guest. He has authored a report on tele-work, which became popular early on in the pandemic. The report showed that more than half of Utah’s households have at least one person that has made what might be a permanent shift to remote work in the past 12 months.
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January 13, 2021 (KVNU) - Shawn Teigen spoke with Jason Williams about Utah Foundation’s second telework report. Jason hosts KVNU’s For the People program, aired weekdays from 4pm to 6pm on 610AM and 102.1FM in the Cache Valley.
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January 14, 2021 (UtahPolicy.com) - The events of the past year have forced a major shift to telework in Utah, with important implications for traffic, air quality and growth. Today, Utah Foundation releases The Way Home: The Shift to Telework and its Air Quality Ramifications, which focuses on how remote work relates to air quality in Utah, provides new insights gained during 2020, and looks toward the future interplay of remote work and air quality. It is the second installment … Continued
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January 13, 2021 (Deseret News) - A new report by the Utah Foundation predicts that teleworking — to some degree — will remain in place as an option for some employees even after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, which could help Utah’s air quality. The report found that in Utah, more than half of households had at least one person shift to remote work as a result of the pandemic, the largest increase among Intermountain states that include Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, … Continued
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December 16, 2020 (Salt Lake Tribune) - It looked like a stroke of genius. Back in the 1950s, California officials, looking to fund economic development projects under tight budget constraints, created a mechanism known as tax increment financing, or TIF. The idea was to pledge new (or incremental) tax revenue generated from a project to make the project itself possible. It would be a clean win for the public, because the only money to be spent would be money that would not … Continued
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December 16, 2020 (Salt Lake Tribune) - Two out of three Utah voters believe state lawmakers listen to business, religious or special interest groups more than they do voters, according to the Utah Foundation. The nonprofit surveyed hundreds of Utahns for its Utah Priorities Project and found that voters in March ranked the unresponsiveness of politicians as the top issue. But in July, well into the coronavirus pandemic, it had dropped to No. 6 behind health care, taxes, education, the economy and … Continued
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December 16, 2020 (UtahPolicy.com) - In November, Utah Foundation held a Breakfast Briefing on the topic of homelessness, sponsored by the University of Utah’s College of Social and Behavioral Science. The panel of experts featured: Tricia Davis, of the Utah Homelessness Programs Office Utah Representative Eric Hutchings Dr. Jeff Rose, of the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism at the University of Utah Dr. Jesús N. Valero, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Utah The panelists … Continued
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December 10, 2020 (KUER) - Local governments in Utah are twice as likely to use tax incentives to fund economic development compared to other municipalities around the country according to a new report from the non-profit group Utah Foundation. The incentives, also known as ‘tax increment financing’, are used to encourage growth by making building costs more affordable for developers. And while Utah governments are more likely to use these incentives, the report found they could also be more transparent … Continued
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December 09, 2020 (UtahPolicy.com) - Interest rates are at historic lows, Utah’s AAA bond rating is still going strong, and we have significant bonding capacity, even within the state’s tight statutory and constitutional constraints. Under normal circumstances, these factors alone would make this an advantageous time to consider a bonding program for infrastructure. But with Utah and its local governments exploring options for economic stimulus, a strong case can be made for focusing efforts on infrastructure. Investments in infrastructure protect … Continued
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December 01, 2020 (UtahPolicy.com) - Utah Foundation has released the sixth in a series of Utah Priorities Project briefs looking at Utah voters’ top concerns. The 2020 Priorities survey revealed a new voter priority for 2020: Politicians listening to voters. The survey showed that Utah voters believe that elected officials are paying too little attention to voters in favor of corporations, religious organizations, the well-connected or special interest groups. When prioritized among other issues in early March 2020, politicians listening … Continued
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November 18, 2020 (UtahPolicy.com) - We regularly query leaders from the state’s policy institutes/think tanks regarding timely policy issues important to the state. Here is our latest question and responses from our panel of policy savants: In normal (non-pandemic) times, Utah’s public education system performs quite well, despite our lowest-in-the-country spending per pupil. But if Utah aspires to be a top-five education state, can we do so at current per-pupil spending levels? At what spending level can we achieve top-in-the-country … Continued
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