About Us
The Economic Innovation Group (EIG) is a bipartisan public policy organization dedicated to forging a more dynamic and inclusive American economy.
With a focus on economic geography — why jobs, investment, and innovation boom in some parts of the United States while lagging in others — we produce original research and work with policymakers to develop policies that expand opportunity for workers and entrepreneurs in every corner of the country.
Examples of our research and policy work include:
- Opportunity Zones: EIG conceived and helped enact Opportunity Zones, a bipartisan initiative that incentivizes private investment in low-income communities. Since passage in 2017, more than $100 billion in OZ investment has reached these communities nationwide. EIG research found that OZs helped boost housing supply in these areas, generating an estimated 416,000 additional residential addresses. In 2025, Congress made OZs a permanent part of the federal tax code, strengthening the policy for a new generation of communities.
- Retirement: EIG examines gaps in access to retirement savings and develops policies to strengthen financial security for American workers and their families. We originated the policy framework behind the bipartisan Retirement Savings for Americans Act, and continue to support congressional action to build on the Trump administration’s 2026 executive order expanding retirement access.
- Economic Dynamism: A dynamic economy — one where businesses start and grow, workers move to opportunity, and innovation spreads broadly — is the foundation of broadly shared prosperity. EIG tracks the health of the American economy through tools like the Index of State Dynamism, which measures the conditions that enable entrepreneurs and workers to thrive.
- Measuring distress and prosperity: EIG created the Distressed Communities Index, a widely used tool that measures economic well-being across American communities. Our work brings visibility to geographic disparities and helps policymakers better understand their districts, guide policy decisions, and target investment.
- The AI future: EIG produces original research on how artificial intelligence is reshaping work, wages, and economic opportunity — and what policymakers can do to ensure the gains are broadly shared.
- Housing: EIG develops policies to expand housing supply and improve affordability, including proposals such as Right to Build Zones that remove barriers to building and align incentives across levels of government.
- High-skilled immigration reform: EIG proposes reforms to overhaul and modernize the high-skilled immigration system. Our work highlights the contributions of high-skilled immigrants and develops policy ideas to maximize the benefits of immigration for the U.S. economy, workers, and communities.
- Noncompete agreements: EIG promotes a more dynamic labor market by fighting to limit the use of noncompete agreements. Our research highlights their impact on worker mobility, wages, and entrepreneurship, while our State Noncompete Law Tracker maps the growing momentum among states to restrict their use.
EIG was founded by Sean Parker, John Lettieri, and Steve Glickman in 2015.
About Us
The Economic Innovation Group (EIG) is a bipartisan public policy organization dedicated to forging a more dynamic and inclusive American economy.
With a focus on economic geography — why jobs, investment, and innovation boom in some parts of the United States while lagging in others — we produce original research and work with policymakers to develop policies that expand opportunity for workers and entrepreneurs in every corner of the country.
Examples of our research and policy work include:
- Opportunity Zones: EIG conceived and helped enact Opportunity Zones, a bipartisan initiative that incentivizes private investment in low-income communities. Since passage in 2017, more than $100 billion in OZ investment has reached these communities nationwide. EIG research found that OZs helped boost housing supply in these areas, generating an estimated 416,000 additional residential addresses. In 2025, Congress made OZs a permanent part of the federal tax code, strengthening the policy for a new generation of communities.
- Retirement: EIG examines gaps in access to retirement savings and develops policies to strengthen financial security for American workers and their families. We originated the policy framework behind the bipartisan Retirement Savings for Americans Act, and continue to support congressional action to build on the Trump administration’s 2026 executive order expanding retirement access.
- Economic Dynamism: A dynamic economy — one where businesses start and grow, workers move to opportunity, and innovation spreads broadly — is the foundation of broadly shared prosperity. EIG tracks the health of the American economy through tools like the Index of State Dynamism, which measures the conditions that enable entrepreneurs and workers to thrive.
- Measuring distress and prosperity: EIG created the Distressed Communities Index, a widely used tool that measures economic well-being across American communities. Our work brings visibility to geographic disparities and helps policymakers better understand their districts, guide policy decisions, and target investment.
- The AI future: EIG produces original research on how artificial intelligence is reshaping work, wages, and economic opportunity — and what policymakers can do to ensure the gains are broadly shared.
- Housing: EIG develops policies to expand housing supply and improve affordability, including proposals such as Right to Build Zones that remove barriers to building and align incentives across levels of government.
- High-skilled immigration reform: EIG proposes reforms to overhaul and modernize the high-skilled immigration system. Our work highlights the contributions of high-skilled immigrants and develops policy ideas to maximize the benefits of immigration for the U.S. economy, workers, and communities.
- Noncompete agreements: EIG promotes a more dynamic labor market by fighting to limit the use of noncompete agreements. Our research highlights their impact on worker mobility, wages, and entrepreneurship, while our State Noncompete Law Tracker maps the growing momentum among states to restrict their use.
EIG was founded by Sean Parker, John Lettieri, and Steve Glickman in 2015.
Careers
EIG is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.