The Blunder Years, Episode 23: Sex robots, guys after 35, and people at Target (plus China)
Two close male friends shooting the shit on a wide variety of different stuff, including geopolitics, nuclear families, and Target. Continue Reading
Economic Mobility
2020 and beyond: The haves vs. the have-nots
We worship Silicon Valley and the supposed “innovation hubs,” but the connected ecosystem is changing all of us daily. Continue Reading
Here are the 10 most economically-powerful cities in the world; yes, NYC is No. 1
Methodology here, but this tries to be fairly comprehensive and looks at these elements: Overall economic clout Financial power Global competitiveness Equity and quality of life The study uses those five indicators. Within each indicator, they rank 10 global cities… Continue Reading
What millennials seem to want out of cities: walkability, public transportation, good schools and parks (car is not necessary)
Admittedly, the “millennials vs. Boomers” topic is already a little old — and this is before millennials even start assuming the majority of roles in the workforce (right now, many of them are still in some form of school, or… Continue Reading
People are leaving New York, Chicago and Los Angeles for Houston, Dallas, Seattle, Charlotte and Nashville
The future of America, in several maps. Continue Reading
Birmingham, Alabama is where college grads are the most segregated from everyone else, eh?
Birmingham has a pretty checkered history with another type of segregation, but now here comes some new research around the segregation of college graduates from everyone else within a given metro area. This is vaguely similar to previous research on cities where rich people… Continue Reading
Across America’s 50 largest cities, the lowest inequality is in Virginia Beach
Here’s a new paper from the Brookings Institution looking at inequality — what the 20th percentile of earners in that city made in 2012 vs. what the 95th percentile made, and then calculating a ratio — in the 50 largest United… Continue Reading
Interested in social mobility? Move to Salt Lake City, San Jose, or Pittsburgh. Don’t move to Atlanta or Charlotte.
Salt Lake City has already been recognized for having way-above-expectations public transportation, and the Milken Institute called it out as a great place to live and work, but now … it might be the city most representative of the American… Continue Reading