Mall’s Washed Up? Not Quite Yet

By Joel Kotkin — The conventional wisdom wrote off the shopping mall long ago, but while no one was looking, the reinvented mall...

Best Poverty Cure: Escape from Baltimore

By William McGurn — New evidence shows minorities now do better in the American South. Of all the “solutions” for post-riot Baltimore, the best poverty cure...

Better Suburbs = Better Cities: Employment and the Importance of the Suburban Economy

By Ross Elliot — Australia’s inner city areas and CBDs are a focus of media and public policy attention, with good reason...

Dispersion and Concentration in Metropolitan Employment

By Wendall Cox The just released County Business Patterns indicates…

America’s Inner Cities Mirror Baltimore’s Woes

By Joel Kotkin... Amid all the happy talk about the revival…

California is so Over

By Joel Kotkin: California has met the future, and it really…

PIKETTY’S WEALTH DRIVEN INEQUALITY: VIRTUALLY ALL IN HOUSING?

By Wendell Cox — The Economist headline reads...
Reno Nevada, 1980's

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...

California’s SOCIAL PRIORITIES

AUTHORS: David Friedman and Jennifer Hernandez are attorneys…

CORRUPT ILLINOIS: NOT A FEW BAD APPLES

by Steve Bartin 02/26/2015 Despite a huge advantage in…