Justin Fox
Don’t assume it’s futile to tax the rich
For as long as I’ve been an economics journalist , the mainstream view among economists has been that taxing capital – corporate profits, dividends,...
Data show remote work pays off
IN 2018, for the first time, people who took public transportation to work in the U.S. had higher median earnings than those who drove...
Trend of students coming to U.S. slows
The number of new international students coming to the United States for college and university fell in the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 academic years, according...
City dwellers’ hidden footprint
Dense, transit-oriented development is more environmentally friendly than suburban sprawl. But city dwellers shouldn’t get too smug about that. Just because an urban apartment...
Opinion: Amtrak’s long-distance routes lose the most money while Northeast corridor...
By the time it crossed the Mississippi River at Burlington, Iowa, last week, our California Zephyr was running more than eight hours late on its...
Internet is everywhere, but U.S. jobs that support it aren’t
The internet was supposed to render geography irrelevant. But the corporations that dominate the internet have turned out to be remarkably concentrated, geographically speaking....
Opportunity zones: The last great neoliberal experiment
The opportunity zones created by the federal tax reform of 2017 have all been set up, and the money has started to flow. When...
Students have changed majors
Of the 839,730 recipients of bachelor’s degrees in the U.S. in the 1970-1971 academic year, 176,307 got education degrees. Other big fields of study...
Streets aren’t made for pedestrians
Pedestrian deaths are on the rise in this country. The Governors Highway Safety Association estimated, based on data from the first half of the...
Manufacturing replaced by … a museum
My wife and I recently spent two nights in North Adams, an old industrial city in the northwestern corner of Massachusetts, at a lodging...
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