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America’s Baby Bust: How The Great Recession Has Jeopardized Our Demographic Health
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes At the turn of the century, America’s biggest advantage was its relatively vibrant demographics. In sharp contrast with its major competitors — the E.U., Russia, China, Japan […]
The U.S. Cities Getting Smarter The Fastest
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com It’s a commonplace among pundits and economic developers that smart people flock to “smart” places like sparrows to Capistrano. Reflecting the conventional wisdom, The New York Times […]
America’s Future Is Taking Shape In The Suburbs
/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes.com For nearly a generation, pundits, academics and journalists have written off suburbia. They predict that the future lies in the cities, with more Americans living in smaller […]
The Tribal Election: Barack Obama Turns to the Karl Rove Playbook
/in Demographics, PoliticsAppearing in: The Daily Beast Move over, Iraq. Tribal politics have arrived at home. It’s not like our tribes will arm themselves, but American politics is developing a disturbing resemblance […]
The New Geography Of Success In The U.S. And The Trap Of The ‘New Normal’
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com This year’s presidential election is fast becoming an ode to diminished expectations. Neither candidate is advancing a reasonable refutation of the conventional wisdom that America is in […]
Are Millennials the Screwed Generation?
/in Demographics, PoliticsAppearing in: Newsweek Today’s youth, both here and abroad, have been screwed by their parents’ fiscal profligacy and economic mismanagement. Neil Howe, a leading generational theorist, cites the “greed, shortsightedness, […]
How Fossil-Fuel Democrats Became An Endangered Species
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: The Daily Beast In an election pivoting on jobs, energy could be the issue that comes back to haunt Barack Obama and the Democratic Party as the cultural […]
The Cities Where A Paycheck Stretches The Furthest
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com When we think of places with high salaries, big metro areas like New York, Los Angeles or San Francisco are usually the first to spring to mind. […]
U.S. Desperately Needs a Strategy to Attract the Right Skilled Immigrants
/in Demographics, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes.com President Obama’s recent “do it myself” immigration reform plan, predictably dissed by conservatives and nativists, reveals just how clueless the nation’s leaders are about demographics. Monday’s Supreme […]
It Can Happen Here: The Screwed Generation in Europe and America
/in Demographics, Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: The Daily Beast In Madrid you see them on the streets, jobless, aimless, often bearing college degrees but working as cabbies, baristas, street performers, or—more often—not at all. […]