by Gary Menger | Sep 5, 2024 | Economic Development, Menger's Musings
Late last week, an innovative scheme to attract new residents hit the wires. The city of Cumberland, Maryland, is offering a $10,000 payment if you will just move to their fine city and either buy or build a house there, and up to a further $10,000 in matching grants...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 11, 2024 | Holiday, Menger's Musings
July 11 is National 7-Eleven Day. For the past few years, the chain has been rewarding customers by giving them a free small Slurpee to celebrate. Free sounds good, doesn’t it? But even free comes at a cost. What if you live 20 miles from the nearest 7-Eleven. Is it...
by Elyse Menger | Jun 20, 2024 | Menger's Musings
In modern political discourse, there are often promises to help the working poor by increasing the minimum wage. In California, the recently enacted minimum wage law for fast food workers has been the subject of some discussion. Unlike most minimum wage laws which...
by Gary Menger | May 30, 2024 | Menger's Musings
By mid-morning on the Tuesday of the annual pilgrimage to ICSC Vegas, my body harshly reminds me that humans were not designed to walk for hours on concrete floors. And by mid-afternoon, driving south on I-15 towards the California state line as if the local sheriff...
by Elyse Menger | Mar 28, 2024 | Menger's Musings
In 2017, about 7 million workers (4.4%) did so from home. In 2023, over 17% of the labor force was found working at home, well over 30 million total. Office buildings which were formerly bursting at the seams are now substantially underutilized, and the bean counters...
by Elyse Menger | Mar 7, 2024 | Geography, Maps, Menger's Musings
The growth of any urban area is highly dependent upon its geographic situation, and much has been written about the particular locational advantages that resulted in the complex urban systems of modern America. Why did Pittsburgh develop as a major steel manufacturing...
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