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The U.S. Middle Class Is Turning Proletarian
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes The biggest issue facing the American economy, and our political system, is the gradual descent of the middle class into proletarian status. This process, which has been […]
Possible Sign of Trouble for Los Angeles
/in California, The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Orange County Register A quarter century ago, the Los Angeles-Orange County area seemed on the verge of joining the first tier of global cities. As late as 2009, […]
America’s Glass Half-empty, or Half-full?
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register The stock market is high, real estate prices have resurged, even the unemployment rate is dropping, yet Americans still feel pretty down about the future. […]
Blue-Collar Hot Spots: The Cities Creating The Most High-Paying Working-Class Jobs
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes It’s a common notion nowadays that American blue-collar workers are doomed to live out their lives on the low-paid margins of the economy. They’ve been described as […]
Selfies Replace Focus on Big Picture
/in The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register California’s economy may be on the mend, but prospects for continued growth are severely constrained by the increasing obsolescence of the state’s basic infrastructure. Once […]
California’s Potholed Road to Recovery
/in California, The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register California’s economy may be on the mend, but prospects for continued growth are severely constrained by the increasing obsolescence of the state’s basic infrastructure. Once […]
Talking About the Future of LA on ABC Radio
/in California, In the News, Urban AffairsBy: KABC Radio Los Angeles On: McIntyre In The Morning Joel joins host Doug McIntyre to discuss the findings of the Los Angeles 2020 Commission’s recent report. Click the Play […]
How Silicon Valley Could Destabilize The Democratic Party
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Forbes Much has been written, often with considerable glee, about the worsening divide in the Republican Party between its corporate and Tea Party wings. Yet Democrats may soon face their […]
Political, Economic Power Grow More Concentrated
/in PoliticsAppearing in: Orange County Register Generally speaking, we associate the quest for central government control to be very much a product of the extremes of left and right. But increasingly, […]
Neither Party Dealing with More-Rigid Class Structure
/in Demographics, PoliticsAppearing in: Orange County Register President Obama’s most-recent pivot toward the issue of “inequality” and saving the middle class might be seen as something of an attempt to change the […]