1. Utah Economic Report
Utah Economic Summit
May 17, 2019

2. The Economist Magazine Covers
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4. Generations of Utahns, 2017 Population Age
Note: Age topcoded at 85+
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2017 Population Estimates
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Source: Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, U.S. Census Bureau
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9. Apartment Boom in SLC
Composition of building permits for residential units by housing type, 2000–2017
Share of residential building permits
Balance of Wasatch Front = Davis, Utah, and Weber counties; Ring counties = Juab, Morgan, Tooele, and Summit counties
Note: Other includes group quarters, mobile homes, manufactured homes, cabins, accessory dwelling units, and any other dwelling unit type not covered by apartments, condominiums, townhomes, duplexes, or detached single-family homes; regions are mutually exclusive.
Source: Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute analysis of Ivory-Boyer Construction Database data 
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10. The Utah County Effect
States with most robust job growth, Aug 2017 – Aug 2018
Source: Gardner Policy Institute Analysis of Utah Dept. of Workforce Services and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data
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12. Utah tech sector growing at more than twice the U.S.
Source: Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute
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13. Life sciences boom in Utah
Average annual employment change in the life sciences industry,
20 states with most life sciences jobs
Source: Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data
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14. The shrinking middle class
Source: Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, U.S. Census Bureau
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16. Federal Debt Held by the Public
Source: Congressional Budget Office and Office of Management and Budget
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18. Oh mother, where art thou?
Total Fertility Rate
Source: National Center for Health Statistics
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20. Multi-family units on par with single-family units
Source: Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute
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22. Utah’s Draft Economic Regions
“Economies don’t follow
political boundaries”
- Juliette Tennert, Chief Economist
Source: Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute
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25. Sentiments about Utah’s Secret Sauce
“They must
have been hardworking, 
tough people.”
-Benjamin Netanyahu, reacting to a bronze statue of the Mormon pioneers on their trek West.
I’ve learned the power of the phrase,  “I need your help.”
- Derek Miller, President and CEO, Salt Lake Chamber
“[In Utah if] something's going wrong in your life, you're going to have intensive, kind of tag-team efforts by people in your community to get you back on track.”
- Megan McArdle, Washington Post
In Utah, we look at everybody as a potential friend.
-Wes Smith, Western Governors University
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26. The Utah Economist : 2019

27. Utah Economic Council: One-word summary
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