CRER director and chief economist Howard Wall was featured in a story about the signs of a cooling local labor market: Across the United States, manufacturing has slowed for the past two years, Wall said, and that has probably been a bit more pronounced locally. “It’s been a negative for a full year for Chattanooga,”…
9/11/25: Report: Tennesseans May Not Be Sharing in State’s Success
CRER director and chief economist Howard Wall provided comments about a report outlining ways in which Tennessee’s economic success might not be felt by everyone. Howard Wall, an economist based at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, said looking at only some costs, rather than at the inflation rate across all goods, can provide a skewed…