Concrete covers are just a thinly-veiled gimmick for selling wider freeways As you’ve read at City Observatory, and elsewhere (CityLab, Portland Mercury, Willamette Week), Portland is in the midst of a great freeway war. The
The great freeway cover-up Read Post »
Educational attainment explains two-thirds of the variation in economic success among metropolitan areas. Each additional percentage point increase in the four-year college attainment rate increases metro per capita income by $1,250 For a long time,
The Talent Dividend: Updated Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week 1. The death of Flint Street. In Portland, a $450 million dollar freeway widening project is being sold as a way to “re-connect” a community that was divided by
The Week Observed, December 8, 2017 Read Post »
After a long, slow recovery, wages are finally rising for the lowest-paid workers, but we’re no where close to rectifying our inequality problem; in fact, it’s going to get worse. The very smart Jed Kolko,
Is inequality over? Read Post »
Churn means that lots of businesses, even large ones, aren’t around forever Many of our discussions of the economy are based on simple, and often largely static mental models of the economy. In a good
A constant state of change: turnover in business establishments Read Post »
A proposed freeway widening project will tear out one of Portland’s most used bike routes At City Observatory, were putting a local Portland-area proposed freeway widening project under a microscope, in part because we think
The death of Flint Street Read Post »
