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							<title><![CDATA[Betting Against NY Is Always a Losing Proposition]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Florida</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite fears about what a Mamdani mayoralty might mean, big business continues to invest in the city]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Needs To Make Its Cities Family-Friendly Again]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Florida</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The pandemic accelerated an urban exodus that was already well under way]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What America Can Learn From Tulsa]]></title>
							<link>https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/03/23/what-america-can-learn-from-tulsa/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Florida</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tulsa is a boomtown, again. In Oklahoma's second-largest city, a new vision of economic development is being born.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Disturbing Part About Amazon's HQ2 Competition]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/20/opinions/amazon-headquarters-competition-disturbing-richard-florida-opinion/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Florida</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pitting city against city in a bidding war for tax and other incentives - -things Jeff Bezos' company doesn't need -- is wasteful, writes Richard Florida, and elected leaders of these cities should ensure that tax payers and citizens are not footing the bill.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Urban Revival Is Over]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/opinion/cities-suburbs-housing-crime.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Florida</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For all of their many problems, our cities are our greatest economic drivers. Their continued revival is critical to the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ability to innovate and compete, create jobs and raise incomes and living standards. For all thenostalgia about the seamy old days of Times Square, we...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Declaration of Urban Independence]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/23/richard-florida-cities-independent-donald-trump-215288</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Florida</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Monday, November 7, 2016, I made what I thought were the final edits to the manuscript of my latest book, The New Urban Crisis, and sent it off to my publisher. The next day, my wife and I invited our American friends to come to our house in Toronto to celebrate what we were all but...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Life Better in Red States?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/opinion/sunday/is-life-better-in-americas-red-states.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Florida</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Doubt the Hipster]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/21/did-i-abandon-my-creative-class-theory-not-so-fast-joel-kotkin.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Florida</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joel Kotkin is at it again.Oli Scarff/GettyAmerica's leading cheerleader for suburban sprawl likes to tell a story about how cities are dying and the suburbs are our future; about how ideas and knowledge don't matter because America's economic future revolves around "the Material Boys"?...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama, Build a Lasting Urban Legacy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/obama-build-lasting-urban-legacy-article-1.1253555</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Florida</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama has signaled that he will focus in a second term on immigration, gun control and climate change. All these issues are important, but none is as critical to his long-term legacy as helping chart a more livable, prosperous and creative course for the future of American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Data Predict Political Revolutions?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/can-data-predict-political-revolutions/71743/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Florida</author>
							<description><![CDATA[First  Tunisia, then Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria, and Morocco seemingly  spontaneously combusted from the bottom up. Last weekend there were  online calls for mass protests in Beijing, Shanghai, and other major  Chinese cities; Libya is in a full-blown state of revolution as of this ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blow Up the Fundamentals of Our Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/economy/76961/richard-florida-reset-recovery-economy-future</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Florida</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Speaking at a health care reform rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, in July 2009, President Obama declared that the worst of the recession was over. A year or so later, with midterm elections looming and an electorate that is as fearful and angry as any in memory, the stock market has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Needs to Make Its Bad Jobs Better]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e8e85ece-8865-11df-aade-00144feabdc0.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Florida</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A growing chorus of commentators believes America faces an  increasingly jobless future. They argue that the US economy can no  longer create meaningful numbers of high-paying jobs, especially for  less skilled workers who lack college or more advanced degrees.There  is no question that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Crash Will Reshape America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200903/meltdown-geography</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Florida</author>
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