From a rising young economist, an examination of innovation and success, and where to
find them in America. An unprecedented redistribution of jobs, population, and wealth is …

The US labor market is the most laissez faire of any developed nation, with a weak social
safety net and little government regulation compared to Europe or Japan. Some economists …

People traditionally have lived close to one another to lower the costs of moving themselves,
their goods, and their ideas. At the start of the last century, urban Americans lived and …

The growing distance between people and jobs in metropolitan America Page 1
BROOKINGS | March 2015 1 The growing distance between people and jobs in …

The promise of upward mobility—the notion that everyone has the chance to get ahead—is
one of this country's most cherished ideals, a hallmark of the American Dream. But in today's …

Three quarters of the American workforce is now employed in services, a substantial portion
in low-paying, dead-end jobs. Can the service economy do as well by the American worker …

America confronts a jobs crisis that has two faces. The first is obvious when we read the
newspapers or talk with our friends and neighbors: there are simply not enough jobs to go …

In May 1998, the New York Times told the story of Dorothy Johnson, an inner-city Detroit
resident who takes two buses and two hours to travel to an evening job cleaning office …

American society today is hardly recognizable from what it was a century ago. Integrated
schools, an information economy, and independently successful women are just a few of the …

Before the collapse of Soviet communism, China's movement toward market capitalism, and
India's decision to undertake market reforms and enter the global trading system, the global …