Richard Florida

How religion, income, diversity, and other factors matter in the red United States

The five metro areas with the fastest population growth all saw their productivity decline. Why don’t more people translate into economic growth?

The key to driving the economy may be to elevate the country’s many low-wage service jobs, with better wages and more opportunity

America’s racist groups concentrate in certain regions—and their presence correlates with religion, McCain votes, and poverty

Abortion, poverty, unemployment—none of these factors is the main reason our metro areas are getting safer

New York, Houston, Washington, D.C.—plus college towns and the energy belt—are all up, while much of the Sun Belt is (still) down. Mapping the winners and losers since the crash.

“Displacement is becoming a larger issue in knowledge hubs and superstar cities.”

They are not just the places where the most ambitious and talented people want to be—they are where such people feel they need to be.

Cities play different economic roles in different areas. And for developing countries, smaller might be better.

America’s healthy-eating disparities might have more to do with income and class than with geography.