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"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.'"  read more »

"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."

Joel in Forbes

"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.'"

Tory on BlogHouston

"Twenty years ago, you could go to Texas, where they had very low taxes, and you would see the difference between there and California,” Joel Kotkin, executive editor of NewGeography.com and a presidential fellow at Chapman University in Southern California, told the Los Angeles Timesthis past March. “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.  read more »

“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 Pajamas Media

"The key factor here may well be economic opportunity. Virtually all the supposedly top-ranked cities cited in this media narrative have suffered below-average job growth throughout the decade. Some, like Portland and New York, have added almost no new jobs; others like San Francisco, Boston and Chicago have actually lost positions over the past decade.  read more »

Jerry Slusiewicz interviews Susanne Trimbath Ph.D., CEO and Chief Economist for STP Advisory Services, LLC. We review the bank bailouts and discuss where that money has gone. Why is there not an increased amount of lending to businesses? What does the future hold for our economy? Are things really improving for the average American?

Susanne on Money Talks