The Christmas Cookie Inflation Index has risen 12.0% in the last year. This is compared to the official inflation rate of 3.2%.
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The Family Dollar system operates more stores than McDonald’s, Starbucks, Target, and Walmart combined. And that’s not good news for your community.
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As America’s cities continue their halting climb up and out of the last few years, data analytics firm Urban3 foresees a few crises—as well as opportunities—waiting for them in 2023.
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If the U.S. is advancing in its ability to build things, why does it seem like our places are falling apart?
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The Christmas Cookie Inflation Index has risen 12.0% in the last year. This is compared to the official inflation rate of 7.7%.
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Streets can be about many things, but unless they are building wealth for the community, they won’t survive. Period.
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Join the Urban3 team as they wade past Oklahoma City’s glittering amenities to take an up-close view of the real economic engine under the shiny enamel hood.
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Let’s explore the idea of inflation being “good.”
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The Christmas Cookie Inflation Index has risen 10.6% in the last year. This is compared to the official inflation rate of 6.8%.
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You can’t just turn off the world supply chain, then turn it back on again and expect it to work properly.
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Today, prosperity isn’t gold, land, or natural resources; it’s know-how.
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There is much we can learn from cities of the past—especially small, remote cities that grew up around the exploitation of natural resources.
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Understanding risk and uncertainty—and the difference between the two—can help local communities face the unknown.
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The Christmas Cookie Inflation Index has risen 4.3% in the last year. This is compared to the official inflation rate of 1.2%.
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This pandemic will have long-term economic impacts on cities far beyond the coastal metropolises.
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We were vulnerable to a crash long before coronavirus appeared. We all made promises to ourselves and each other that we never meant to keep.
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The ultimate irony of our economic system is that the only mechanism we have to satisfy our needs is to increase our neediness.
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What technological disasters — like the Deepwater Horizon explosion — can tell us about why our economy seems to lurch from crisis to crisis.
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The coronavirus is revealing how fragile our economy is. (Look no further than disruptions to the global supply chain.) As we rebuild, will we double down on the failed status quo…or build something ANTI-fragile?
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More research from the Upjohn Institute, following an attention-grabbing study last year, helps us understand the cause-and-effect chains that result when a new apartment building opens in a low-income area.
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