"Regional high school graduation rates have a major impact on economic growth, particularly entrepreneurship. To determine the relationship between education and growth, researchers incorporated recent theories of entrepreneurship and new enterprise creation into traditional economic models. The recently published Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy report, Using Census Business Information Tracking System (BITS) to Explore Entrepreneurship, Geography and Economic Growth, discusses findings. Researchers found a positive relationship between U.S. entrepreneurship and high school graduation across all industry sectors, except manufacturing."
Gartner's latest worldwide IT spending forecast exposes a trend every CIO has already felt in budget negotiations. Total spending will climb 14.2 percent in 2026, reaching $6.37 trillion. It seems that the IT infrastructure market is simply having a strong year. However, the more useful insight is how unevenly that growth is distributed. The Headline Number vs. The Real Story Data center systems and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) are absorbing capital at a pace several multiples faster than devices, communications services, and traditional IT services. This is not incremental growth spread across a healthy portfolio. It is a wholesale reallocation of enterprise technology budgets toward AI infrastructure, made on the expectation that demand for AI workloads will justify the outlay before that demand has been fully proven. Where the Money is Going Data center systems are forecast to grow 62.5 percent in 2026, that's up from 51.6 percent growth in 2025, reaching $822 billion....