Protecting and fighting for the middle class regularly dominates rhetoric on the Right and Left. Yet activists on both sides now often seek to undermine single-family home ownership, the linchpin
by Charles Hugh-Smith Social media offers hope of achieving higher social status, something that is increasingly out of reach in our winner-take-most economy. I’ve often addressed the decline of social
DB: Google mobility data shows changes in visits compared to baseline. Since Jan, some countries have seen 80-90% decline in mobility for restaurants, cafes, shopping centers, theme parks, museums, libraries
What’s a Community Mobility Report? Each Community Mobility Report is broken down by location and displays the change in visits to places like grocery stores and parks. We’re working to
A new study identifies powerful psychological factors that connect people to places, and that mean more to them than money. Mobility in the United States has fallen to record lows.
by Charles Hugh-Smith The real heresy here is the American economy is now rigged for downward mobility. In the conventional narrative, one’s economic class is overshadowed by one’s political belief
by Charles Hugh-Smith Social media offers hope of achieving higher online social status without having to succeed financially in a winner-take-most economy. I’ve often addressed the decline of social mobility
by Charles Hugh-Smith Capital garners the gains, and labor’s share continues eroding. That’s the story of the 21st century. The middle class, virtually by definition, is not prepared for downward