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Brain Drain
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Brain Drain Policy Debate: Doctors Emigrating From Africa
The policy challenge is to align the interests of the migrants with the source and destination communities, not how to stop the economic development of people.
Northern New England Is Dying
Too many communities are focused on keeping people from fleeing instead of attracting new and diverse talent.
London Hosts the Olympics: How Success for People Is a Failure of Place
A living, breathing example of how we misunderstand the inequity of poverty.
Why the Impoverished Need to Move to the Cities With the Highest Housing Prices
On poverty traps and the paradoxes of migration.
Urban Islands of Poverty and Bowling With Strangers
Questioning our understanding of "gentrification" is a necessary first step toward helping people who are stuck in impoverished neighborhoods.
Pittsburgh Booming
The Steel City offers a better chance for upward mobility than almost any other place in the United States.
Detroit Postmortem
Forget all of the obituaries filled with talk of brain drain and population decline. Magical things are still happening in Detroit.
Silicon Valley’s New Jersey Problem
Like New Jersey in the 1960s, Silicon Valley is now just as dependent, if not more so, on talent produced outside of the region.