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The Curious Comeback Of U.S. Downtowns

December 2, 2014/in Urban Affairs

Appearing in: Forbes Perhaps nothing better illustrates the notion of urban revival in America than the comeback of many downtown districts. Yet if these areas have recovered some of their […]

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Southern California Stuck in Drive

December 1, 2014/in California, Urban Affairs

Appearing in: Orange County Register Southern California has long been a nurturer of dreams that, while widely anticipated, often are never quite achieved. One particularly strong fantasy involves Los Angeles […]

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New Class Order

November 26, 2014/in Politics

Appearing in: Orange County Register In this predictably difficult year for the Democrats, the party of the people is turning, of all people, to its plutocrats. However much the party […]

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Downtown Houston at Night

Legal but Still Poor: The Economic Consequences of Amnesty

November 23, 2014/in Demographics, The Economy

Appearing in: The Daily Beast With his questionably Constitutional move to protect America’s vast undocumented population, President Obama has provided at least five million immigrants, and likely many more, with […]

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America’s Smartest Cities

November 21, 2014/in Demographics, The Economy, Urban Affairs

Appearing in: Forbes In this difficult recovery, many of the strongest local economies have been those with a high share of educated people in their workforce, particularly areas where technology […]

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The Progressives’ War on Suburbia

November 17, 2014/in Politics, Urban Affairs

Appearing in: The Daily Beast You are a political party, and you want to secure the electoral majority. But what happens, as is occurring to the Democrats, when the damned […]

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Choosing Fortune Over Freedom

November 4, 2014/in Politics

Appearing in: Orange County Register “If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the ‘collective’ century, and, therefore, the […]

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Aging America: The U.S. Cities Going Gray The Fastest

October 31, 2014/in Urban Affairs

Appearing in: Forbes For years we have been warned about the looming, profound impacts that the aging of the U.S. population will have on the country. Well, the gray wave […]

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The Unbridgeable Wealth Gap in America

October 31, 2014/in In the News, The Economy

By: Bloomberg Advantage With: Kathleen Hays and Vonnie Quinn Joel discusses the unbridgeable wealth gap in America and other themes from The New Class Conflict on the Bloomberg Advantage radio […]

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RIP, NYC’s Middle Class: Why Families are Being Pushed Away From the City

October 26, 2014/in Politics, The Economy, Urban Affairs

Appearing in: New York Daily News Mayor de Blasio has his work cut out for him if he really wants to end New York’s “tale of two cities.” Gotham has […]

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