The way students talk about high tech, sounds disturbingly like how they talk about jobs on Wall Street.
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Posted inEconomy, Education, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2014
Why Are Harvard Grads Still Flocking to Wall Street?
Students from elite colleges march off to jobs at the big banks and consulting firms less by choice than because of a rigged recruiting game that the schools themselves have helped to create.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2014
Is the Master’s Degree an Expensive Anachronism?
For legions of new college graduates struggling to find good jobs in a weak labor market, “boot camps” are a faster and cheaper alternative to traditional grad school.
Posted inJune/July/August 2014, Magazine, Politics
Why the White Working Class Matters
The bad news: Dems can’t govern without them.
The good news: Blue-collar whites are far more diverse
than during the era of the Reagan Democrats.
Posted inJune/July/August 2014, Magazine, Politics
Beyond Identity Politics
To reach the white working class, promise an economy that “works for everyone.”
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, 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
Housing Boom a Bust for First-Time Buyers
Three years ago, Matt Morgan launched his own interior design firm in Washington, D.C. At age 32, his business is thriving, with a roster of high-end homeowners among his clients, many of whom live in Washington’s toniest suburbs. Morgan himself, however, rents. He pays $2,500 a month for an apartment in D.C., has a credit […]
Posted inJanuary/February 2013, Magazine
Wholesome Millennials—Black, Brown, and White
Prevailing stereotypes about America’s youth, and particularly about young African Americans, are often wildly off base, either because they were never true, or because they have failed to keep up with the reality of generational change. Below is a selection of social indicators showing ways in which today’s younger generation exhibits substantially more positive behaviors […]
