Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
Two good articles on job creation in Sunday's NYT: Roger Lowenstein's article in the magazine on whether the president creates jobs (simplified answer: no) and Steven Greenhouse's article on the political geography of job growth. As noted on this blog months ago, Florida is booming.
On a similar note, James Dao's short Week in Review piece on the weird political effects of the concentration of swing states in the Rust Belt is also worth a glance. Best graf:
"Anyone campaigning in that part of the world is going to be torn between two worlds," said Richard Feinberg, an economist at the University of California at San Diego and a former Clinton administration official. "For a national audience, the candidates talk about economic modernism, global mobility and open markets. But in that part of the world, there is a temptation to appeal to the romanticism of the industrial Midwest, with its memories of a faded golden era when they had a virtual global monopoly."
Meanwhile, kids are looking to design for future jobs. This Sunday Styles article focuses on fashion, but everywhere I go people tell me their college-age kids are studying graphic design.