From Governing, The Young and the Restless: There are proven ways to recruit and retain the emerging generation. Most states and localities don’t seem to know about them. From Government Executive, A Transformative Idea: In defense of a plan to create a U.S. Public Service Academy. Finding our way to great work: An article on Eleanor Roosevelt and the life of public service. Things can still only get better: Talk of moral decline shows that people still refuse to give up on the idea of a better world. Does capitalism make us more materialistic? Ben O'Neill investigates. A review of The Billionaire Who Wasn’t: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune by Conor O’Clery. Who’s the most charitable of us all? Celebrities don’t always make the cut. A review of Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World by Bill Clinton. And for My Second Act, I’ll Make Some Money: Athletes do it. So do movie stars. Why not former presidents?
Charles de Bartolome (Colorado) and Stephen Ross (Connecticut): The Race to the Suburb: The Location of the Poor in a Metropolitan Area. The first chapter from The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South by Matthew D. Lassiter. Not in Whose Backyard? America’s poorest neighborhoods are also its most polluted. What can be done? Scientists find out gentrification is bad for you: At a time when we hail creativity as an urban panacea from New York to Toronto, from Berlin to Shanghai, those who research the downside of gentrification, and expose social exclusion and marginalization will not go silently into the urban night. A review of Robert Moses and the Modern City by Hilary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson. The Morphing Megalopolis: In the 1950s, the urban corridor from Boston to Washington looked like a radical innovation in human settlement.
