THE CHANGING GEOGRAPHY OF EDUCATION, INCOME GROWTH AND POVERTY IN AMERICA
By Joel Kotkin — We often rate metropolitan areas for their performance over one year, five or at most 10, but…
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URBAN CORE MILLENNIALS? A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE
by Wendell Cox 03/06/2015 Yes, millennials are moving to the urban cores but not in significant numbers when view from the context of larger city (metropolitan area) trends. That’s the updated story, based on new small area data that approximates the year 2011 (Note: ACS 5-Year Data). Small area trends are important to understanding developments […]
California’s SOCIAL PRIORITIES
AUTHORS: David Friedman and Jennifer Hernandez are attorneys in the California environmental and land use practice group of Holland & Knight LLC, an international law firm. The practice group periodically publishes analyses of California legal and policy data in support of its continued study of the use, and abuse, of the California Environmental Quality Act […]
MISUNDERSTANDING THE MILLENNIALS
by Joel Kotkin 03/01/2015 The millennial generation has had much to endure – a still-poor job market, high housing prices and a generally sour political atmosphere. But perhaps the final indignity has been the tendency for millennials to be spoken for by older generations, notably, well-placed boomers, who often seem to impose their own ideological […]
THE CHANGING GEOGRAPHY OF EDUCATION, INCOME GROWTH AND POVERTY IN AMERICA
by Joel Kotkin 03/04/2015… In this column, we often rate metropolitan areas for their performance over one year, five or at most 10. But measuring economic and social progress often requires a longer lens, spanning decades. Nowhere is this clearer than in education, which many claim is the key to higher-wage economic growth. Yet there […]
CORRUPT ILLINOIS: NOT A FEW BAD APPLES
by Steve Bartin 02/26/2015 Despite a huge advantage in name recognition, massively more money, and a lift from President Obama, Rahm Emanuel failed to avoid a run-off Tuesday. It seems many Chicago residents are beginning to realize that our present system – and leaders – are leading us off a precipice. In the adopted home […]
Misunderstanding the millennials
BY JOEL KOTKIN The millennial generation has had much to endure – a still-poor job market, high housing prices and a generally sour political atmosphere. But perhaps the final indignity has been the tendency for millennials to be spoken for by older generations, notably, well-placed boomers, who often seem to impose their own ideological fantasies, […]
The three faces of populism
BY JOEL KOTKIN More than at any other time in recent memory, American politics now are centered on class and the declining prospects of the middle class. This is no longer just an issue for longtime leftists or Democratic or right-wing propagandists. It’s a reality so large that even the most detached and self-satisfied Republicans […]
10 MOST AFFLUENT CITIES IN THE WORLD: MACAU AND HARTFORD TOP THE LIST
by Wendell Cox 02/21/2015 The United States and Europe continue to dominate the list of strongest metropolitan areas (city) economies in the world, according to the Brookings Institution’s recently released Global Metro Monitor 2014.This is measured by gross domestic product per capita, adjusted for purchasing power parity (GDP-PPP). Brookings points out that this does not […]
EUROPE IS STILL A SECOND-RATE POWER
by Joel Kotkin 02/21/2015 In the years after the Cold War, much was written about Europe’s emergence as the third great force in the global political economy, alongside Asia and the United States. Some, such as former French President Francois Mitterand’s eminence grise Jacques Attali, went even further: in his 1991 book Millenium Attali predicted […]