People Develop, Not Places
Measuring the development of patches of Earth seems ridiculous. But that's exactly what we do. How might things differ if we measured income per natural instead of income per resident?
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Demographics
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Underground Demography: Race, Class, and the Subway Systems of Large U.S. Cities
Despite social class segregation in housing, people of vastly different economic circumstances are likely to share the same subway car, at least for a few stops.
The Heart of Demographic Doom
Nearly a century ago, during the Great Migration, less-educated individuals were the ones who left home in search of better lives. The opposite is true today, with the educated more mobile than ever before, leaving some places in a spiral of decline.
Diversity Cult
Ethnic and racial diversity locked up in poor neighborhoods on Chicago's South Side does little good for the regional economy. So why do many blindly associate ethnic diversity with economic development?
Rural Talent Migration
One option for addressing talent shortages in rural America, which makes up about 90 percent of the country.
The Formula
How an equation cooked up by Mussolini’s numbers guy came to define how we think about inequality—from Occupy Wall Street to the World Bank to the billionaires at Davos—and why it’s time to find a new way of looking at the numbers.
Life Expectancy, the Anti-Vaccine Movement, and How Individuals Started to Take Credit for Growing Old
Longer life expectancy is one of the hallmarks of modern American life — one of those facts that…
Golden Gate Bridge Suicides, Then and Now
The people who jumped to their death from the Golden Gate Bridge over the past decade are significantly older than their counterparts of a generation ago.
It Can Be Made Into a, Umm, Monster
If you'd always thought leadership of the country at the apex of world power was kinda important, here's a smidgen of evidence indicating others agree.