Building prosperous and resilient communities is not easy work to begin with. And it has become even more challenging given the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation and transitions to remote work.

Remember the first time you got the keys to a car? You could hit the open road and explore. At first it was liberating and exciting. But then you needed to figure out where to go and how to get there.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a dataset called LODES - the “LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics” - which shows the locations of jobs and workers in each of twenty main industry sectors across the country.