Once again, Massachusetts nailed the top score in the Institute’s State Tech and Science Index, as the Bay State has in every edition since the launch in 2002. The index tracks and evaluates every state’s tech and science capabilities and their success at converting these assets into companies and jobs. Colorado, Maryland, California and Washington rounded out the rest of the top five.

The Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging launched its website — aging.milkeninstitute.org. We have created a collaborative hub for content that will be helpful to a range of individuals and organizations interested in the challenges and opportunities of population aging. Through the site, we hope to reach new audiences and amplify the good work being done by many in the field.

The third-quarter Milken Institute Review is now available. This issue features articles by Jason Furman, who offers a rare glimpse into the difficulties of analyzing macroeconomic data and using it to predict growth, unemployment and inflation; Robert Litan, who offers initiatives that could make a big difference in the lives of middle-income Americans who rightly fear for their jobs; and Ron Haskins, who rebuts the conventional wisdom that partisan politics has blocked all cooperation between Congress and the Obama White House, and offers a menu for possible policy collaboration on social issues after the election.