Independent ranchers and animal rights activists don’t agree about much, except that it’s time to stop using federal tax dollars to support the meat lobby.
Economy
Reporting and analysis on the American economy and economic policy: how markets, monopolies, and public policy shape jobs, wages, and opportunity. Includes our long-running coverage of antitrust and corporate power in The Monopolized Economy.
Posted inBooks, Economy, January/February 2014, Magazine
A Middle Course for the Middle Kingdom?
Competition with China really isn’t a zero-sum game. So why does it feel that way?
Posted inEconomy, January/February 2014, Magazine
How the West Was Reinvented
Nudged by Bill Clinton, an economy based more on recreation than extraction is transforming the rural West.
Posted inEconomy, January/February 2014, Magazine
The Disneyfication of Tibet
How tourism has become a tool of occupation.
Posted inEconomy, Education, Higher Education, Magazine, November/December 2013
Connecting Kids to College and Careers
Five ideas that really work.
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, November/December 2013
Nice Places Finish First
The economic returns of civic virtue.
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, November/December 2013
The Living-in-the-Basement Generation
How young adults are faring in America’s twenty-five biggest metro areas.
Posted inEconomy, Government, Magazine, November/December 2013
The 2013 Opportunity Index
How well is your state helping you succeed?
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, November/December 2013
Introduction: Where Is Opportunity in America?
Once upon a time, proponents of the idea of “American exceptionalism” used to point to Europe’s high youth unemployment rates as an object lesson. See what happens, they’d lecture, when countries have inflexible labor markets and cradle-to-grave social benefits? But an inconvenient truth has emerged. The youth unemployment rate in the United States is now […]
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, November/December 2013
Stay Put, Young Man
Americans used to be exceptional for how often they moved. But that once-powerful source of both efficiency and upward mobility is now in steep decline.
