Joel Kotkin

Low Wages and the Metropolitan Middle Class

John Petro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unemployment, Great Recession, Economy, Wages, The Atlantic, Richard Florida, San Francisco, Joel Kotkin, Houston, Renters, Rent Burdened, Income, Rental Housing, Santa Fe, Housing Costs, New York News
John Petro

The Welfare to Work reforms of the 1990's may have shrunk the public assistance rolls, but has not necessarily improved financial stability for low-income households.

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An Urban or Suburban Future: A Review of Foreclosing the Dream by William H. Lucy

Frank Gruber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Suburbs, Foreclosure Crisis, Sprawl, Joel Kotkin, Urbanism, William H.Lucy, Housing Bubble, Books News
Frank Gruber

Professor William Lucy believes that America has reached a point where the long trend toward more dispersed and suburban living is turning toward a more urban future.

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Contrasting Greece and America

Alan Schram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Business News, Financial Crisis, Imf, Joel Kotkin, Federal Budget Deficit, Greece, Dollar, Euro, Business News
Alan Schram

America's demographic dividend, plus its independent currency, put it in a much better position than Greece.

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Mandarins and Apparats

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Preemption, Living Wage, Health Care Reform, Joel Kotkin, President Obama, States, Fair Contacting, Financial Reform, Politics News
Harry Moroz

Beyond his vivid comparison of the Obama administration to the worst of the autocratic worst Kotkin forgets to provide evidence that the administration is actually obsessed with centralizing authority.

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Pax Urbana -- Debunking America's Third War

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House Office of Urban Affairs, Joel Kotkin, Cities, Barack Obama, War, Suburbs, Politics News
Harry Moroz

The real motive of a recent article by Joel Kotkin's is to defend an outmoded, retrograde notion of freedom that he never defines

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