Author: Kaitlin Hopkins

Joel on Instapundit

“Unemployment today may not be as extreme as in the 1930s, but for whole segments of the population–notably young workers under 25–it is on the rise. Already young workers with college educations suffer a 7.7% jobless rate, while employment is nearly twice that among young workers overall. Hardest hit, in fact, are young people without college educations, whose real earnings already have dropped by almost 30% over the past 30 years, according to one study. ”

Joel on Docudharma

“Joel Kotkin, a distinguished presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University in California and a senior consultant with the Grand Forks-based Praxis Strategy Group, says larger cities like Bismarck, Sioux Falls, Fargo and Grand Forks and smaller communities within a 50-mile radius look to be well positioned for the future. But he adds that the farther away you get from air service and key infrastructure, the more challenging the situation becomes for rural communities.”

Joel on Prairie Business

“The article features this quote from Joel Kotkin, a presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University in California. ‘Twenty years ago, you could go to Texas, where they had very low taxes, and you would see the difference between there and California,’ Kotkin told the Times.”

Joel on The Grand Forks Herald

“Today’s public benefits fail that test. As urban scholar Joel Kotkin of Chapman University puts it: ‘Twenty years ago, you could go to Texas, where they had very low taxes, and you would see the difference between there and California. Today, you go to Texas, the roads are no worse, the public schools are not great but are better than or equal to ours, and their universities are good. The bargain between California’s government and the middle class is constantly being renegotiated to the disadvantage of the middle class.’”

Joel on the Napa Valley Register

“For the past decade a large coterie of pundits, prognosticators and their media camp followers have insisted that growth in America would be concentrated in places hip and cool, largely the bluish regions of the country.”

November 4, 2009

“Forbes magazine columnist Joel Kotkin this week summarized some of the latest research on U.S. migration patterns. Several studies show that Americans continue to move out of high-tax, high-regulation states such as New York, California and Massachusetts and to lower-tax, lower-regulation states such as Texas and North Carolina.”

Joel on Union Leader

“Net migration, both before and after the Great Recession, according to analysis by the Praxis Strategy Group, has continued to be strongest to the predominately red states of the South and Intermountain West. ”

Joel on Reason

“Call it the ‘new localism.’ Scholar Joel Kotkin does, and writes quite eloquently about how the economic and societal changes can benefit our nation by strengthening communities. ”

Joel on WalletPop

“TORY GATTIS calls attention to a Dallas Observer blog post on the congestion that rail expansion may produce in downtown Dallas. “My understanding is that Houston may face the same risk when the east-west line opens downtown,” writes Gattis, ‘It will take some amazingly sophisticated train and traffic signal synchronization to keep things running smoothly down there. Same for the Uptown/Galleria line on Post Oak.’”

November 4, 2009