National population growth has fallen to 1937 levels. But jobs and affordable living continue to attract people to certain parts of the country.
Urban areas that straddle the U.S.-Mexico border have grown together, but in very different ways.
“I'm loath to reduce his work to just a grade. But if I were, I would probably say a B-.”
Low-income neighborhoods that gained college-educated residents lost low-cost units at five times the rate of places that didn’t.
It’s supposed to be a more affordable and flexible way to move people around. But in one of the world’s largest and most congested cities, BRT just made everything worse.
Even in the diversifying big cities, the average white person’s neighborhood is whiter than the metropolitan area he or she is in.
The odds that kids will do better than their parents have plummeted. One possible fix: Learn from the neighborhoods in which income mobility is still thriving.
Earnings rose, but not at the cost of employment.
From Youngstown, Ohio, to Wausau, Wisconsin, it was the towns with big shares of middle-income households that flipped their political allegiances in 2016.
New Census data show that the real differences between the city and the country may not match up with popular perception.
A new report details the harrowing consequences of sea level rise.
But investing in smart growth policies now can have huge economic returns, a new working paper says.
Tibetan “momos” are all over the Indian city, but the immigrants who make them still struggle for acceptance.
Children who are already flourishing get an educational boost, but those who’re struggling fare worse than peers in non-assisted housing, a new study finds.
In some low-income neighborhoods, they’re regarded as more authentic representatives of the residents. That has good and bad consequences.
“The numbers really underscore how cross-cutting an issue poverty is—it’s not just a red or a blue issue or an inner-city or suburban issue.”
Proponents say that letting recent immigrants vote in local elections is as American as apple pie. Can this isolated practice overcome political pushback and become more widespread?
Only 2 percent of U.S. counties contain a high number of people who voted for Trump in the primary, as well as Mexican immigrants and imports.