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Watch What You Say, The New Liberal Power Elite Won’t Tolerate Dissent
/in PoliticsAppearing in: The Daily Beast In ways not seen since at least the McCarthy era, Americans are finding themselves increasingly constrained by a rising class—what I call the progressive Clerisy—that […]
Shaking Off The Rust: Cleveland Workforce Gets Younger And Smarter
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes In virtually every regional economic or demographic analysis that I conduct for Forbes, Rust Belt metro areas tend to do very poorly. But there’s a way that […]
Pandering to the Minority Vote
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Orange County Register As they approach what could be a troublesome election season, Democratic party strategists have targeted two issues – inequality and race – as their primary means to […]
The Cities Winning The Battle For Information Jobs 2014
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes In the town of Verona on the rural fringes of Madison, Wisc., there’s a Google – like campus that houses one of the country’s most rapidly growing tech […]
Three-headed Democratic Party
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Orange County Register As they face the midterm elections with the wind in their faces, Democrats increasingly stake their collective political future on the issue of inequality. The […]
Taking a Back Seat to Texas
/in California, Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register The most important news recently to hit Southern California did not involve the heinous Donald Sterling, but Toyota’s decision to pull its U.S. headquarters out […]
Reversing American Decline
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: New York Daily News Across broad ideological lines, Americans now foresee a dismal, downwardly mobile future for the country’s middle and working classes. While previous generations generally did […]
The Best Small And Midsize Cities For Jobs 2014
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes In the classic television show “The Honeymooners,” many jokes were wrung out of bus driver Ralph Cramden’s membership in the International Brotherhood of Loyal Raccoons, headquartered in […]
Stop Favoring Investors, Speculators over Middle Class
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register I, like most members of the middle class, particularly in California, just paid a tax bill that seemed less like my fair share than a […]
Special Report: America’s Emerging Housing Crisis
/in California, Demographics, Urban AffairsThis is the executive summary from a new report, America’s Emerging Housing Crisis, published by National Community Renaissance, and authored by Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox. Download the report and […]