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Jonathan Bowles

@jbowlesnyc.bsky.social
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Executive Director, Center for an Urban Future, a think tank focusing on NYC’s future. Writing about economic mobility and economic growth.

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Jonathan Bowles @jbowlesnyc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Proud to share this article about the Center for an Urban Future and the impact we’ve been having in NYC. @nycfuture.bsky.social @crainsnewyork.bsky.social @nickgarber.bsky.social www.crainsnewyork.com/politics-pol...
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The think tank quietly influencing New York’s top officials
The Center for an Urban Future has caught the attention of city leaders with pragmatic policy ideas.
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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Urban population counts seem to be stabilizing in the latest 2019-2023 5-Year ACS: • Cook County, IL flat, down about 0.2% • NYC is up about 1.1% • SF is down about 4.4% over this period
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Todd Gardner @toddgardner.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Less than 10% of people in the U.S. moved in 2023, according to new data from the Census Bureau. That’s the smallest percentage since the bureau started keeping track in 1948. | Marketplace www.marketplace.org/2024/12/12/m...
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Demographics, prices are keeping Americans where they are - Marketplace
We're not relocating like we used to, thanks largely to the graying of the population, high home prices and remote work.
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Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
For a variety reasons, you might feel starved for good news. Well, in just the last 6 months, federal agencies have reported - fentanyl deaths and overall drug overdose deaths declined - homicide rates declined - US longevity finally went up for the first time since the pandemic - obesity declined
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Howard Slatkin @hslatkin.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
This is wholly consistent with NYC’s experience of new housing production and demographic change - only in the neighborhoods that added the most housing did Black population increase between 2010-2020 storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/46a9...
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
In 2011, 47% of US male high school grads enrolled in college. Now, the share has dropped to 39%. Consequently, there's been a big drop in the number of men in college -- in 2022, there were 1 million fewer men age 18-24 enrolled than in 2011.
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Fewer young men are in college, especially at 4-year schools
College enrollment among young Americans has been declining over the past decade, and it's mostly due to fewer young men pursuing degrees.
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David Garten @davidgarten.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
What happens when you make it more difficult to build new hotels, ban Airbnb, and use existing hotels to house migrants? “I don’t understand how normal people can go there,” one tourist said www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/n...
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New York City Hotel Rates Soar to Record Heights as Holiday Travel Nears
Hotels charged an average of $417 per night in September, the highest monthly rate ever for the city. “I don’t understand how normal people can go there,” one tourist said.
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Jonathan Bowles @jbowlesnyc.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
There are 1.5 million adults in NYS who have some college credits but no degree. Our new @nycfuture.bsky.social report urges state leaders to create a new program, SUNY Reconnect, to help these adults re-enroll at SUNY & get over the college finish line. nycfuture.org/research/its...
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It’s Time to Launch SUNY Reconnect | Center for an Urban Future (CUF)
Center for an Urban Future calls for New York to launch SUNY Reconnect for working age adults who have earned some college credits but have no degree.
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Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
We take for granted some of our society's greatest successes.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Never married 21-36 year olds In 1965: 17% In 2017: 57% www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Chart shows changes in the marital status of US adults ages 21-36 at different times. In 1965, only 17% of this age group was never married. By 2017, 57% of this age group had never married.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
In the three majority-Native districts in Alaska, the 'no' to repealing RCV won 64% to 36%, netting 2,960 votes. Statewide, the 'no' only won by 664 votes. This was not a coincidence, but result of plenty of organizing, & work by Native leaders: boltsmag.org/alaska-measu...
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Powered by Native Voters, Ranked-Choice Voting and Open Primaries Survive in Alaska
Alaska’s predominantly Native regions delivered huge margins against repealing the state’s new elections system, despite facing continued logistical challenges to voting.
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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Newly elected Upper West Side assemblymember @micahlasher.bsky.social has launched a great new Substack and has kicked it off with an important and thought-provoking piece on the way forward for NYC Democrats:
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Saving the New York Project from Donald Trump
What it will really take in the long term.
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Jonathan Bowles @jbowlesnyc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
NY among bottom 15 states for time students spend in school each year.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
WOMEN'S GROWING COLLEGE ADVANTAGE Gap between young U.S. women and men getting bachelor's degree 1995: No difference (25% each) 2024: Women are now 10 points more likely to have a degree (47% vs. 37%) www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Chart showing that in 2024, young women and men in the US were more likely to hold a bachelor's degree than the same age group was in 1995. Women have made greater gains than men.
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Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
1/ The Burning Glass Institute's latest report, on "Launchpad Jobs", is out! In tandem with American Student Assistance, my colleagues looked at non-degree jobs that offer good pay, job stability and upward mobility.
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Jonathan Bowles @jbowlesnyc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Exciting to see NYC's storefronts bounce back after so many were hit hard by the pandemic, e-commerce, and remote work. As @stefanoschen.bsky.social makes clear, restaurants are driving the recovery. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/n...
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A Surge of New Restaurants Drives New York City’s Storefront Revival
Store vacancy rates are still above prepandemic levels, but new food and drink businesses, led by Mexican, Japanese and Caribbean kitchens, have helped fill the void.
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