The Brookings Institution issued research last week about “advanced industries,” which essentially was a broad definition of technology (technology R & D and STEM workers in 50 industries). The Memphis MSA...
Read MoreThe following are two articles from the Chicago Policy Review (Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago). The first article disrupts the myth that tax breaks result in businesses growing the economy,...
Read MoreIt’s concentrated poverty, not gentrification, that cities like Memphis should be worrying about, according to Joe Cortright in another of his groundbreaking reports. High Poverty Census Tracts in Memphis almost doubled...
Read MoreWe’ve written before about how it’s suburban poverty that produces headlines like “Memphis is #1 in Poverty.” These are rankings for the MSA, and it is the anomalous high ranking of poverty outside of...
Read MoreFrom Planetizen: The federal government began pushing for innovations within the public sector in May 2009, when President Obama founded the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation (Office). Since then,...
Read MoreFrom Governing: Despite the Internet’s ever-growing social and economic relevance, a sizable number of Americans in select cities still aren’t connected. For the first time, the Census Bureau collected data measuring Internet...
Read MoreFrom Perceptions by The Urban Child Institute: Trick or treat means little to Memphis children being raised in families with domestic violence. A cruel trick of birth has placed them in home environments where they must face the...
Read MoreWe’ve written many times about how Memphis must increase the number of its college graduates from 2010 to 2013 if it is to be competitive in today’s economy, so we won’t repeat it here. But the Memphis MSA was...
Read MoreFrom New Geography: Desperate times call for desperate measures. The Rust Belt, a region familiar to the air of anxiety, knows this all too well, particularly the “desperate measures” part. A case in point: During the 1990’s,...
Read MoreSomehow, we missed this speech by our friend Carol Coletta few months ago but it seems timely for Memphis with its emphasis on talent, opportunity, and quality of place. (Bolded passages are ours.) Carol Coletta, vice president...
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by Bill Day. Memphian Bill Day is two-time winner of the RFK Journalism Award in Cartooning. His cartoons are syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons. Cartoons Archive →