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Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, November/December 2013
Not Your Father’s Shop Class
The promising revival of career and technical education.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, K-12, Magazine, November/December 2013
How to Build a Better Launch Pad for Young Americans
A commonsense plan that Congress can pass now.
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.
