For cities and counties
More analytical capacity for the decisions your community depends on.
What should council know before this decision?
City and county leaders are expected to understand economic conditions, explain tradeoffs and respond quickly to changing needs. MIQ helps staff turn economic and workforce data into analysis leaders can actually use.
Analysis your council and leadership can use
Local government staff are asked economic and workforce questions by councils, executives, residents, businesses and partners, often faster than a small team can answer them. MIQ supports staff judgment with better analytical capacity.
MIQ helps city and county teams with
- Briefing councils and executives.
- Understanding regional and economic change.
- Comparing the community with peers, with the peer basis stated.
- Understanding local government context for a policy or program: authority, funding and feasibility.
- Supporting budget and strategy discussions with sourced analysis.
- Translating complex data into concise analysis people can use.
Questions your team gets
What is changing in our local economy? How do we compare with peer cities or counties? What should council know before this decision? Which trends should we be watching? What does the regional economy mean for our budget or strategy?
Policy decisions stay with the people accountable for them.
MIQ gives staff more capacity, time and better tools to prepare. Every figure carries its source and the period it covers, and you review, verify and own the work before it is published.
Go deeper
The use cases behind this work.