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To answer this question, I shall look at the Rochester metropolitan area through the metric of population. In addition, following the work of Mark Muro of the Brookings Institution, I shall refer to metropolitan areas with a population exceeding 550,000 ...

President Donald Trump recently highlighted the power of apprenticeships as a pathway to fulfilling careers. “American citizens have worked every job, every occupation, no matter what it might be—no matter how grueling, how challenging, or even how dangerous,” he said ...

A few years ago I read “Spirit Level:  Why Equality is Better for Everyone” by two British authors, Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson. Using World Health Organization data, the authors construct a careful case showing the relationship between income inequality ...

A few years ago I read “Spirit Level:  Why Equality is Better for Everyone” by two British authors, Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson. Using World Health Organization data, the authors construct a careful case showing the relationship between income inequality ...

Poll after poll show few people like or want Trumpcare, aka the American Health Care Act. The AHCA is staunchly opposed by patient advocacy groups and professional organizations alike. Organizations that condemn it as “a patchwork of bad ideas based ...

Why would anyone demolish 60 units that the tenants enjoy, and whose footprint in the middle of Cobbs Hill Park is nearly invisible? Because the owners, Rochester Management Inc., are thinking first about the corporate bottom line, rather than the ...

Editor’s note: Wegmans Food Markets Inc. CEO Colleen Wegman last month gave the keynote address to the St. John Fisher College Class of 2017. Her speech, lightly edited for the different audience, is below. Thank you for the incredible honor ...

On May 25, President Trump, during his visit to the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels, Belgium, sharply criticized our European allies for, in effect, freeloading off the military dominance, and the military spending, of the United ...

Over the past several months following the election of President Donald Trump and the appointment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Project Exile has received a lot of attention.  Specifically, the administration has recognized that Project Exile, which relies on coordinated ...

The year 2016 was certainly an active year for mergers. In just the month of October, almost $490 billion worth of deals were announced. With regard to new deals, readers are likely to be familiar with the name Spectrum, which ...

Opportunity is at the heart of the American Dream, and at the heart of opportunity is a job. When the right person fills the right job, we all benefit—families, neighborhoods, businesses. We all grow and prosper. Yet, there’s a disconnect ...

Many observers of the American workplace are concerned about the malign impact that automation is having and will continue to have on the demand for labor. 

The usual explanations offered for the Trump earthquake of 2016 include bigotry, Russian hacking, fake news, FBI Director James Comey and xenophobia. But a pivotal factor behind Trump’s victory is that Americans have become ever more distrustful of government insiders.

Trying to recreate the U.S. manufacturing sector of the 1950s and 1960s would be difficult and costly.

Rochester is a vibrant and growing community worthy of ridesharing.