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About one-third of the college students today will drop out, a marked rise since the 1960s, when the figure was only one in five.
Tyler Cowen • The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton
dechurched person as
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
average being over, with the middle part of the income spectrum being compressed into the bottom and stretched out at the top.
Scott H. Young • Ultralearning
The new knowledge economy created a new class of Americans: men and women with college degrees (at the very least), skilled with symbols and numbers, salaried professionals in information technology, scientific research, design, management consulting, the upper civil service, financial analysis, medicine, law, journalism, the arts, higher education
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(measured as the cost of gasoline) and more valuable agricultural rents.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
belonging based,
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
According to a 2015 report from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers based on data from the US Census Bureau, from 1948–2000, jobs grew 1.7× faster than population. Since 2000, the population has grown 2.4× faster than jobs.3