Tag Archive for: middle class

Biden’s Climate Change Reparations Will Bankrupt Americans

Perhaps nothing better illustrates the backwards nature of our time than the drive for reparations. This includes not only payment for race discrimination, but also for the impacts of climate change. In both cases, it’s the West’s middle and working classes who will foot the bill.

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Gavin Newsom Turned the California Dream into a Woke Nightmare

It takes a kind of malignant genius to destroy California, but the state’s ruling elites are well on their way to assure its decline. If the downward spiral continues, it will stand as a testament to the insane variety of progressive policies that have driven middle and working class people, as well as numerous companies, out of the state.

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California: Where Freedom Goes to Die

California was once a byword for liberty and opportunity. The so-called Golden State was home first to the Gold Rush, then to Hollywood and then to the tech revolution in Silicon Valley. Californians have long been proud of that legacy Read more

Kotkin on Spectrum News to Discuss Improving Economy

By: Jo Kwon

On: Spectrum News

A recent poll shows three-quarters of American adults want the government to focus on the economy in 2024.

While some economic indicators, like the unemployment rate, show the economy is improving, many people are not feeling improvements in their pocketbooks.

Grocery shoppers in Costa Mesa spoke with Spectrum News about the economy and food prices.

Chapman University’s Joel Kotkin, author and expert in demographics, the economy and other topics, discusses the so-called misery index.

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How to Shrink a Fortune

For generations, millions have come to California to make their fortunes, relying on the state’s own seemingly limitless fortune of natural resources, favorable climate, and economic opportunity. But now California’s longstanding identity as the nation’s leading innovator, wealth-builder, and aspirational locale is threatened. Read more

Why the Right is Eating the Left’s Lunch

The Western world is experiencing the most dramatic political realignment since the rise of socialism over a century ago. The driving force then was the rise of the working class, created by the Industrial Revolution. Today, it is the shift to an economy dominated by information industries, technology, finance and media. Read more

Joel Kotkin talks with Rod Arquette About the New Green Feudalism

By: Rod Arquette
On: The Rod Arquette Show

Joel Kotkin, Professor of Urban Studies at Chapman University, joins the program to discuss his piece for Compact about the new green feudalism. Joel’s segment begins at 1:31:50.

 

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The New Green Fuedalism
Adaption is the Answer

The West Has Been the Real Loser at COP28

As the COP 28 climate shindig comes to a merciful end, history is truly unfolding, as Marx once remarked, as farce. Read more

The West is Turning Away from COP28’s Green Agenda

The UN’s COP28 climate conference has always been more political than scientific. But now more than ever, the green agenda looks to be in jeopardy.

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Report: Building the New America

This new report examines the housing trends that are driving today’s migration of people and jobs, and suggests a urban strategy that better fits the aspirations of most Americans. Below is a summary of the report and a link to download the full report:

For generations Americans have voted with their feet—and their dollars—to achieve what has long been called “the dream,” namely, a home of their own, usually in a low- to mid-density community. This preference has existed for decades, and despite media assertions of a generational shift back to dense, urban living, the statistical evidence shows quite the opposite.

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