April 17, 2014(Salt Lake Tribune) - By 2050, Utah is expected to nearly double its population — adding 2.5 million people to its current 2.9 million, with two-thirds coming from “natural growth” through its high birth rate and a third from immigration. A new study by the Utah Foundation predicts the booming growth, and a separate panel discussion Thursday by the League of Women Voters addressed planning needed to handle it.
April 17, 2014(National Journal) - With smog keeping children indoors during winter months, the area’s reputation for healthy outdoor living could be on the line.
March 23, 2014(KSL) - The Utah Foundation examined how partnerships between businesses and educators can strengthen Utah’s economy during its 69th annual meeting Thursday. The foundation, which seeks to inform policymakers by providing research and analysis on various local issues, hosted discussion panels with speakers from the Utah System of Higher Education, educational institutions and other groups.
March 20, 2014(KUER) - A professor at Utah Valley University who founded the Utah Women in Education Project says women in the state continue to lag behind the rest of the nation in college graduation rates, despite gains in recent years. Dr. Susan Madsen was speaking at an annual meeting of the independent research group Utah Foundation.
March 20, 2014(Deseret News) - The Utah Foundation examined how partnerships between businesses and educators can strengthen Utah’s economy during its 69th annual meeting Thursday. The foundation, which seeks to inform policymakers by providing research and analysis on various local issues, hosted discussion panels with speakers from the Utah System of Higher Education, educational institutions and other groups.
March 11, 2014(Deseret News) - A broad public mandate exists along the Wasatch Front to reduce air pollution. There also appears to be broad agreement on the need to address at least two of the largest causes of PM 2.5 pollution: vehicular emissions and wood burning emissions.
March 06, 2014(Deseret News) - If Utah has gotten one aspect of taxing and public accountability right, it is with property taxes. Unfortunately, a bill wending its way through the state Legislature would mess with that success, raise your property taxes to fund the House speaker’s unproven notion that what Utah schools really need is a tablet in every backpack.
February 13, 2014(Fox 13) - SALT LAKE CITY — Utah dominates the world of volunteering, or so it seems from statistics based on an exhaustive national poll. The Corporation for National and Community Service’s Volunteering and Civic Life in America report has shown Utah to lead the nation in the percentage of volunteers for 8 years running.
January 29, 2014(Salt Lake Tribune) - The paths to cleaner air in Utah are as varied and numerous as the thousands of emission sources spewing pollution into the skies over one of nation’s most beautiful states. That was a central theme Wednesday evening at a town hall titled “Cleaning up Utah’s Air” in the Salt Lake City Main Library, where more than 100 concerned residents directed sometimes pointed questions to a panel of four experts.
January 24, 2014(Salt Lake Tribune) - A study by the Utah Foundation found that smoke from solid fuels such as wood and coal are a larger problem than previously thought.
January 24, 2104(Deseret News) - A new broad-based analysis of the air pollution problem along the Wasatch Front finds that the most cost-effective way to cut down on harmful particulates in the air is by refraining from lighting the fireplace or wood-burning stove.
January 23, 2014(KUER) - A new report tries to cut through some of the confusion surrounding Utah’s air-pollution problems. Shawn Teigen says he stepped back to take an impartial look at one of Utah’s most important issues.
January 23, 2014(KSL News) - A new broad-based analysis of the air pollution problem along the Wasatch Front finds that the most cost-effective way to cut down on harmful particulates in the air is by refraining from lighting the fireplace or wood-burning stove.
January 23, 2014(KSL News) - SALT LAKE CITY — A report released today by the Utah Foundation analyzes the trends and science behind our bad air. \”Everything we do almost is emitting particulates in the air or at least gases that turn into particulates and so it is all bad,\” said Utah Foundation representative, Shawn Teigen.
January 23, 2014(ABC 4 Utah) - When the 2014 legislative session begins on Monday, several people want air quality to be high up on the agenda. Shawn Teigen is the principal research analyst for Utah Foundation. He spoke in front of the governor this Wednesday morning. Teigen was in studio to talk more about what may happen with air quality legislation in the upcoming weeks.
January 17, 2014(Business & Society (U of U)) - Utah Gov. Gary Herbert joined more than 400 business and community leaders and economists today to launch the Economic Club of Utah.
January 13, 2014(Salt Lake Tribune) - Leaders of several public education groups, including the Utah Education Association and Utah PTA, said voters are not being represented through Utah’s current political process, and endorsed an election reform movement promoted by the Count My Vote group… \r\n \r\n On education issues in particular, polls conducted for the nonpartisan Utah Foundation in 2010 and 2012 found that Utah voters overwhelmingly said that public education was the most important issue for the state. But Republican … Continued
January 13, 2014(Deseret News) - GROUSE CREEK, Box Elder County — For Cathe Runyon, one of two teachers at the Grouse Creek School in Utah\’s northwest corner, attending teacher training classes can be difficult… In October, the Utah Foundation listed professional development among the best practices that contribute to student success in a report presented to lawmakers.
December 19, 2013(Salt Lake Tribune) - After all-day caucus meetings on Wednesday, leaders of the Utah Legislature emerged to say they see little appetite for raising taxes in the upcoming general session — during an election year — but are anxious to do something to clean up Wasatch Front air.
November 20, 2013(Deseret News) - Air quality, health and safety, education and availability of jobs contribute to the quality of life — perhaps some more than others — but Utahns are putting all four at the top of the list this year.
November 19, 2013(Salt Lake Tribune) - Transportation leaders from around the country launched an effort Tuesday to persuade Congress to raise an extra $30 billion a year for highways and mass transit — and said a partial model for their lobbying is how Utah leaders have been building support for transportation funding in the Beehive State.
November 19, 2013(KUER) - Availability of jobs, public school education and air and water quality are the top three areas most in need of improvement for a better quality of life. That’s according to the latest Utah Foundation survey of Utahns. The Foundation’s Senior Research Analyst Shawn Teigen led a panel discussion today in downtown Salt Lake City on the results of the latest study of Utahn’s Quality of Life.
November 11, 2013(Fox 13) - Utah residents pay far more money to the state government than the numbers that show up on paystubs, mortgage statements or store receipts. 31 percent more. That’s the proportion of “own source” money that comes into the state government from what the U.S. census calls “charges” and everyone else calls fees. When state and local revenues are lumped together, Utahns pay 29 percent of government budgets in the form of fees.
