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Passionate about health inequity? Interested in driving change in your community?
This fall, The Economy League of Greater of Philadelphia will relaunch a city-wide innovation called the #WellCityChallenge. We're looking for everyday innovators with ideas of community-led solutions to health inequities.
If you feel passionate about health inequity in your community and want to help shape this Challenge, click READ MORE and join our Well City mailing list!
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Regional Direction
Inflation in Greater Philadelphia: The August 2022 Update
This Leading Indicator provides an update on localized inflation rates for Greater Philadelphia after the release of latest August 2022 Consumer Price Index (CPI) estimates by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. As prices slow down for the first time in the last twelve months, we unpack the impact of... Read More
Regional Direction
Rising Renters of Philadelphia
Recent media and research reports have commented on increasing rents across the country [1,2,3]. Many of us are now familiar with how a tight housing... Read More
Regional Direction
Detroit: The Rise and Fall of a Public Transit System
We continue our Leading Indicator series focused on Detroit as we prepare to convene 150 Philadelphia civic and business leaders for the Greater... Read More
Regional Direction
Detroit: Past and Future of a Shrinking City
We continue our Leading Indicator series focused on Detroit as we prepare to convene 150 Philadelphia civic and business leaders for the Greater... Read More
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A Philadelphia-Detroit Comparison: The Economies
We continue our series comparing Philadelphia and Detroit as we prepare to convene 150 Philadelphia leaders in Detroit for the Greater Philadelphia... Read More
The GPLEX application for Detroit 2022
is now closed.
We are inviting 50 Detroiters to JOIN US in October. GPLEX will return in Detroit, Michigan this October 1-4! Stay connected here and follow us on social media at @EconomyLeague #GPLEX
Click here to preview the GPLEX2022 3-day program: https://bit.ly/37HCmoP
CAMPAIGNS & PROJECTS
THE WELL CITY CHALLENGE
The Well City Challenge, presented by Independence Blue Cross, is a social impact challenge to engage and support everyday innovators with new creative ideas for addressing Philadelphia’s millennial health and mental health challenges.
PHILADELPHIA ANCHORS FOR GROWTH & EQUITY (PAGE)
Philadelphia Anchors for Growth and Equity is a partnership between the Economy League, the City of Philadelphia and leading “Eds and Meds” anchor institutions that seeks to increase local purchasing by large institutional buyers to grow businesses, strengthen the local economy, create jobs, and build wealth.
ANALYSIS OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA FIVE-YEAR PLAN
To aid in deliberation around the City of Philadelphia FY2019 budget and FY2019-2023 Five-Year Plan, the Economy League has compiled analysis to situate budget discussions within the broader context of the Philadelphia economy in 2018 and examine key linkages between the Five-Year Plan and what we see as the primary drivers of growth and prosperity—education and jobs.
OUR INVESTORS
The Economy League thanks the corporate, institutional, and individual investors whose financial support makes our work possible.
