April 08, 2021(Fox 13) - SALT LAKE CITY — A new study says Californians are not the reason for Utah’s rising home prices. The Utah Foundation looked into whether the large number of California residents leaving their state is causing the spike. What they found was the complete opposite. Instead of people moving in, the organization says the reason behind skyrocketing prices is that people aren’t leaving the Utah, especially in the Salt Lake area. A New York Times report … Continued
April 02, 2021(Salt Lake Tribune) - Even before the current drought — or the one that inspired a similar declaration from then-Gov. Gary Herbert in 2018 — Utah has put far too much effort into pretending we’re not a desert. A 2014 report from the Utah Foundation notes that 82% of Utah’s water usage is for agriculture, and half of that goes to grow alfalfa, much of which is exported as animal feed, taking with it more water than is used … Continued
March 26, 2021(UtahPolicy.com) - Utah Foundation’s 2020 Utah Priorities Project found that housing affordability is a top issue to Utah voters. This is due in part to increasing housing prices. Based on data collected by Redfin (a real estate brokerage that publishes national housing data), Utah’s housing prices skyrocketed in 2020. A study by bankrate.com found that over the course of 2020, Utah’s home home values increased by 15.4 percent, which was the third-highest increase among U.S. states. As … Continued
March 24, 2021(UtahPolicy.com) - Utah has joined about a dozen states in exploring a new kind of revenue for road maintenance that charges drivers for miles driven, rather than fuel consumed. While many states have conducted research and pilot projects on road usage charges, Utah and Oregon are the only two states with currently operating programs. Measuring the Miles: Road Usage Charges in Utah examines the broader movement toward road usage charges among the states; how these charges can … Continued
March 19, 2021(Deseret News) - But now the Utah Foundation has released a report called “Measuring Miles” that thoroughly examines the issue, as well as its advantages and disadvantages. The beauty of the Utah Foundation is that it is nonpartisan. It is a research organization, not an advocacy group. Its reports examine facts and do not make recommendations. This report makes it clear that imposing a RUC won’t be simple. The state will need to calibrate the impacts of commercial … Continued
March 19, 2021(Salt Lake Tribune) - Post-secondary educational attainment matters a lot. For years, Utah Foundation has been uncovering data on challenges and successes that connect directly to post-secondary educational attainment. In fact, attainment matters so much to us that we just launched a series on the topic with a report that examines strategies that can be deployed to help boost attainment levels. What is educational attainment? In general, it is the highest level of education that a person or population … Continued
March 22, 2021(UtahPolicy.com) - Utah Foundation’s 2020 Utah Priorities Project found that housing affordability is a top issue to Utah voters. Previous Utah Foundation research indicated that housing affordability was of much greater concern among renters than homeowners. While the increasing cost of owning a home is potentially offset by record low interest rates, there is no such offset for renters. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development uses a national survey to calculate the Fair Market Rent, … Continued
March 22, 2021(UtahPolicy.com) - Utah Foundation has launched a series of reports on how Utah can boost educational attainment. The first report in that series, Beating the Odds: Post-Secondary Success for Adult, First-Generation and Lower-Income Students, explores various means of promoting both student retention and completion of certificates and degrees. It focuses on subsets of students who have been less likely to attain higher levels of education and receive the socio-economic benefits of that attainment. In this edition of … Continued
March 17, 2021(Deseret News) - About 8,000 years ago, somebody in what is now Iraq came up with the idea of taxing the public for services and infrastructure. In addition to funding armies, taxation in the ancient world went heavily toward building roads. Whether it was property taxes or some other exaction, few were particularly pleased. Tax collectors were despised in the ancient world. After these millennia, is it possible that Utah has figured out the best way for the … Continued
March 12, 2021(Rod Arquette Show) - Peter Reichard, President of the Utah Foundation, joins the show to discuss their report about new kind of revenue for road maintenance, which several states, including Utah, are considering, that charges drivers for miles driven rather than fuel consumed
March 15, 2021(Salt Lake Tribune) - Telework alone, however, is not a silver bullet to clean up Utah’s air, Shawn Teigen, director of research at Utah Foundation and principal author of its teleworking study, said. “It’s like one tool in the tool shed. People are going to have to get back into buses and into FrontRunner and into TRAX, because that also has a benefit.”
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.
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
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…
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
