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| = Poverty =
| | Created by Barry Johnson of [http://www.polaritypartnerships.com/ Polarity Partnerships], Polarity Maps are ways to map out tensions. |
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| [[wikipedia:Poverty in the United States]] offers a good overview of how we measure poverty in the U.S. The Census Bureau tracks [https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2017/demo/poverty_measure-how.html two measures]: the official measure (developed in the early 1960s when Lyndon B. Johnson declared [[wikipedia:War on Poverty|War on Poverty]]) and the [[Supplemental Poverty Measure]].
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| Sites with clean interfaces that track various stats:
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| * [https://spotlightonpoverty.org/states/ Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity]
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| * [https://talkpoverty.org/poverty/ Talk Poverty] (hosted by the Center for American Progress)
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| * [http://www.nccp.org/profiles/ National Center for Children in Poverty]
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| = Middle-Class Jobs =
| | # Name the poles in a value-neutral way |
| | | # Brainstorm content for each quadrant |
| * Quoctrung Bui. [http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/16/356176018/the-most-popular-jobs-for-the-rich-middle-class-and-poor "The most common jobs for the rich, middle class, and poor."] ''NPR Planet Money''. October 16, 2014.
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| == Truck Driving ==
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| * Scott Santens. [https://medium.com/basic-income/self-driving-trucks-are-going-to-hit-us-like-a-human-driven-truck-b8507d9c5961 "Self-driving trucks are going to hit us like a human-driven truck."] ''Medium''. May 14, 2015.
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| * Natalie Kitroff. [http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-automated-trucks-labor-20160924/ "Robots could replace 1.7 million American truckers in the next decade."] ''Los Angeles Times''. September 25, 2016.
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| = Business =
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| [[wikipedia:Ronald Coase|Ronald Coase's] 1937 paper, [[wikipedia:The Nature of the Firm|"The Nature of the Firm,"]] found that companies were more efficient than trading bilaterally through contracts. [[wikipedia:Yochai Benkler|Yochai Benkler's]] 2002 paper, [http://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.html "Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm,"] suggested that — like transaction costs — information opportunity costs explained the seemingly paradoxical efficiencies of commons-based peer production (e.g. Wikipedia, open source software).
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| [https://www.johnhagel.com/ John Hagel] and [http://www.johnseelybrown.com/ John Seely Brown] have suggested that the efficiencies of scale in the early to mid-20th century were about rote and rigid production, which could easily be automated away by technology. At the same time, digital technology has placed a premium on scaling our ability to learn together, which suggests an [https://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2012/08/from-race-against-the-machine-to-race-with-the-machine.html opportunity to discover new efficiencies] that are not so easily automatable.
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| = Trade =
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| [[wikipedia:Greg Mankiw|N. Gregory Mankiw]] on [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/business/surprising-truths-about-trade-deficits.html the surprising truths about trade deficits].
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| = Innovation =
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| Immigrants contribute an outsized portion of innovation in the U.S.<ref>John A. Griffin. [https://harvardmagazine.com/2019/01/william-kerr-harvard "The Innovation Engine."] ''Harvard Magazine''. January-February 2019.</ref>
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| * Since 1901, 33% of U.S. Nobel Laureates have been immigrants
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| * In 2014, 40% of doctoral degrees awarded to non-citizens
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| * More than a quarter of U.S. entrepreneurs were born overseas. The number has been rising steadily since 1995.
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| * [https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=337265 William Kerr] estimates that immigrants accounted for 29% of patents in 2017, up from 9% in 1975
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| * Native-born residents display more creativity where many immigrants work in innovation
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| = See Also =
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| * [[Equity]]
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| = References =
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