Matt Vande Bunte: The city’s poverty rate grew faster between 2000 and 2010 than any other metropolitan hub in the country, according to research released Monday, May 20, in a book by the Brookings Institution. But not quite as fast as the rate in Grand Rapids suburbs. The number of suburban poor in the Grand …
Walter Russell Mead: Manufacturers like Carhartt and Wrangler aren’t just selling more clothes and boots, they’re selling higher-quality products. The WSJ reports: “The appetite for fracking gear is leading clothes makers to send research and development teams to consult with oil-field workers in Texas and North Dakota, in the same way Nike Inc. taps elite …
Liz Alderman: Despite pledges by Nicolas Sarkozy when he was president to address economic and social inequality after a series of violent riots in 2005 and 2007, though, critics say little has changed. That is why a new generation of people like Mr. Benamer are trying to turn the suburbs into incubators for entrepreneurs, who …