…in suburban enclaves. There is a rationale for battening down the hatches: the rich thus ensure that they don’t have to pay any share of the local public goods and…

…years exercised considerable outsized political power because of (among other things) their ability to elect senators representing many fewer people than for urban metropolises. In fact, the Tea Party/GOP coalition…

…I downloaded are CPIAUCSL “Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items, Index 1982-84=100, Quarterly, Seasonally Adjusted” PCECTPI “Personal Consumption Expenditures: Chain-type Price Index, Index 2009=100, Quarterly, Seasonally Adjusted”…

…using the CPI-W which is the consumer price index for all urban wage earners and “clerical workers” as compared to the more commonly know CPI-U for all urban consumers. Ending…

…presidential candidates tell us theirs,” reader Urban Legend wrote, as part of a several-paragraph comment: While a single payer plan is superior in theory — and has been proven in…

…health disparities. … Why are rural hospitals at higher risk of closure than urban hospitals? George Pink, PhD, Deputy Director of the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program, sees 3…

…of densities” correlates closely to suburban politics. Rural-suburban areas are strongly Republican; urban–suburban places are overwhelmingly Democratic. But sparse and dense suburbs are more divided—and these were the battleground of…

…is a young vigorous man! Chris Matthews did talk about young people who are more likely to check out Urban Dictionary than the old fashion Merriam-Webster dictionary: Someone who does…

…and western Mediterranean. But this very wealth permanently upset the balance between the landowning oligarchs in the Senate vs. the ordinary urban plebeians and rural farmers. For it was the…

…various parts of economics, including industrial organization, urban and regional economics, macroeconomic dynamics, international and interregional trade, and even capital theory, with over 100 articles and into the teens of…