Letter From the Editor: Toward a Bridge Across the Skills Gap
Introducing the November/December 2015 print issue of Pacific Standard.
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Pittsburgh Booming
The Steel City offers a better chance for upward mobility than almost any other place in the United States.
Will Rising Mortgage Rates Put an End to the Housing Recovery?
Rising rates will obviously send monthly payments higher, but they'll also affect the market in a more unusual way: They're going to hurt all-cash investor purchases of housing, which have been a boon to the most distressed markets.
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.