A friend recently attended an urban development workshop in Dallas. Lots of content on retaining and attracting Millennials. She was surprised (me too when I heard about it) when in a session on transit oriented development the architect of the…
Important and surprising New York Times article entitled "Transportation Emerges as Crucial to Escaping Poverty". Reporting on research at Harvard the Times reports: In a large, continuing study of upward mobility based at Harvard, commuting time has emerged as the…
I'm very much looking forward to participating in the "The Future of Michigan Education" forum on Wednesday, May 27 from 7 to 8:30 pm at the Ann Arbor District Library, 343 South Fifth Ave in downtown Ann Arbor. The forum is…
As we explored in our last post if we are serious about raising American living standards we need policies that address both increasing education attainment and that tilt the playing field in favor of employees rather than employers. The chart…
Insightful Jared Bernstein post on the David Leonhardt's "College for the Masses" column. (Bernstein is a Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.) Bernstein generally agrees with Leonhardt's central point that a four year degree or more…
I considered making this a one sentence post. Read this David Leonhardt article for the New York Times entitled College for the Masses. Its a must read. So if you have limited time, read the Leonhardt article rather than what…