All else equal, our results showed that a 1% increase in black population is associated with a 5% increase in per capita revenue from fines and a 1% increase in share of total revenue from fines. Furthermore, the cities seemingly most reliant on fines are the ones with the highest percentag...
Many Americans believe that the public health problem of violence can be addressed by focusing on young black males. We hypothesize that our economic and political systems have created marginal urban areas of undesirable land uses and unwanted people which breed violence. Using three medium-sized ci...
So while Chicago really is something of an extraordinary case, Baltimoreisn’t an outlier, exactly. Most cities east of the Rocky Mountains with substantial black populations are quite segregated. There’s not a lot to distinguish Baltimore from Cleveland, Memphis, Milwaukee, New Orleans, Philadelph...
THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN has propelled a striking demographic shift: black New Yorkers, including many who are young and college educated, are heading south. About 17 percent of the African-Americans who moved to the South from other states in the past decade came from New York, far more than ...
U.S. Cities with the most Renters 20. Cincinnati, Ohio Percentage of renters: 62.0 City population: 297,517 Approximate population of renters: 184,461 19. Rochester, New York Percentage of renters: 62.1 City population: 210,358 Approximate population of renters: 130,632 18. Athens-Clarke Coun...
In a multivariate analysis labor union advocacy proves to be most powerful predicator of serious city-level sustainability efforts. This belies the image of labor as being anti-environmental. Our modern, post-industrial economy generates jobs with the development of green businesses. Overall, we ...
Americans love eating out, a fact that's evidenced by the 660,755 restaurants that were open for business in the United States in the spring of 2018. The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought devastation on the restaurant industry, with an estimated 17% of restaurants closed either permanently or lo...
(also called Chippewa or Anishinaabe), about half of whom live in the Twin Cities area; most of the remainder live on reservations in rural Minnesota. In the early 21st century more than 4 percent of the state population wasAfrican Americans, about nine-tenths of whom resided in the Twin ...
These days, Japan’s capital has set its eyes on redefining the urban experience, with strategic investments in public spaces, culture and tourism. The reason? Because it can, as the economic engine of the country—responsible for 20% of Japan’s GDP—and with the second-most Global Fortune...
A rash of horrific crimes committed by illegal immigrants across the country in the past few weeks has many Americans on edge. While most illegal aliens come to the United States seeking a better life, the massive increase in illegal immigration under the Biden Regime has brought with it an ...