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/in Demographics, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes In an era of high unemployment and limited opportunity, more Americans are taking matters into their own hands and going to work for themselves out of their […]
Joel Talks About LA’s Energy Industry
/in California, In the NewsBy: KABC Radio Los Angeles On: McIntyre In The Morning Joel appeared yesterday on KABC Los Angeles McIntyre in the Morning to talk about the current state of California’s energy […]
Oregon’s Sad Focus on Happiness
/in Politics, The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register Oregon is a beautiful place, and, for many of the state’s well-heeled residents, including many refugees from equally beautiful but overpriced California, economic growth not […]
Post-Nagin, New Orleans Is On Way To Becoming A Model City
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Forbes Last week’s conviction of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on 20 charges of bribery and fraud marks the end of a tumultuous era in the city’s history, and […]
Sustaining Prosperity: A Long Term Vision for the New Orleans Region
/in Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Greater New Orleans, Inc. This is the executive summary from a new report Sustaining Prosperity: A Long Term Vision for the New Orleans Region, authored by Joel Kotkin […]
Southern California has Aging Issues
/in California, DemographicsAppearing in: Orange County Register Back in the 1960s, and for well into the 1980s, California stood at the cutting edge of youth culture, the place where trends started and […]
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 […]