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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 […]
What is a City For?
/in Urban AffairsThe attached report is derived from a speech given last spring in Singapore at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. The notion here is to lay out a new, […]
The Metro Areas With The Most Economic Momentum Going Into 2014
/in The Economy, Urban AffairsAppearing in: Forbes America’s economy may be picking up steam, but it remains a story of parts, with the various regions of the country performing in often radically divergent ways. […]
The Blue-Collar Heroes of the Inland Empire
/in California, Demographics, The EconomyAppearing in: Orange County Register The late comedian Rodney Dangerfield (nee Jacob Cohen), whose signature complaint was that he “can’t get no respect,” would have fit right in, in the […]