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If X, Then Why?
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention By Manning Marable (Viking Press, 594 pp., $30) I. READ MORE >>
Who Are The Real GOP Radicals In Iowa?
Government Jobs and the Economic Recovery in Metropolitan America (Updated June 24, 2011)
The current edition of Brookings’ MetroMonitor shows that government job growth is associated with the economic performance of America’s metropolitan areas since the beginning of the recession. Among the nation’s 100 largest metro areas, the 20 that have done the best since the recession started (taking into account recovery of jobs, output, unemployment rates, and house prices) are Augusta, Austin, Boston, Buffalo, Columbus, Dallas, El Paso, Honolulu, Jackson, Knoxville, Little Rock, Madison, McAllen, Nashville, Oklahoma City READ MORE >>
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Function, Form, and the Metropolitan Future
The National Journal and The Atlantic just published the second supplement in its "next economy" series entitled: "the geography of opportunity." READ MORE >>
Jeremiah, American-Style
Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch By Eric Miller (Eerdmans, 394 pp., $32) READ MORE >>
The Movie Review: ‘Up in the Air’
Seasons Change… Unemployment Rates
The Wall Street Journal reports this morning, based on new figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that unemployment rates continued to climb in July in metropolitan America. READ MORE >>
The Master of Money
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life By Alice Schroeder (Bantam Books, 960 pp., $35) READ MORE >>
