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Tackling housing affordability
As the political winds appear to be shifting in Democrats’ favor after an eight-year electoral cycle dominated by Republicans, expect a renewed push to...
U.S. choosing slow economic growth
It worked in the 1990s: The U.S. economy continued to grow strongly for several years even after it showed signs of capacity constraints and...
Trump wants the Fed to roll back the U.S. economy
Doves on the Federal Reserve evidently have a vocal ally in President Donald Trump. He said recently he’s “not thrilled” about the Fed increasing...
Employers calling all workers
As American society increasingly self-sorts itself into political tribes, there’s a growing and noteworthy exception to that trend: the labor market. A rising share...
Cities need more workers, not jobs
A funny thing happened after Amazon invited cities to compete for its second North American headquarters. Somehow other corporations got the idea that they...
Companies should consider embracing labor unions
With a labor shortage unlikely to go away anytime soon, companies should consider embracing organizations they’ve shunned – labor unions – to guarantee themselves...
Left-behind cities get their turn
The past decade has divided U.S. geography into haves and have nots. The haves: educated, wealthy communities in large metro areas such as New...
Who can accommodate Amazon?
Which cities will lead the economy of tomorrow? And who will decide? Often, it’s an amorphous mass of companies and people over time, drifting...
Take a pay cut, help the economy
The U.S. unemployment rate is hovering around a 16-year low. Job openings are near a record high. So why is it possible to argue...
Poaching spurs recruitment economy
Economies need ever-increasing productivity, ever-more workers, or both. Employers in the U.S. are finding neither.
America finds itself in an unfamiliar position where population growth...
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