Atlanta's a good example of a city that's quite sprawling, where there's a sharp division between where blacks and whites live, between where low-income and high-income families live.

The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter.

Cities that tend of have better schools for middle-income families, they tend to have much better prospects for kids moving up in the income distribution.

We don’t really care about test scores. We care about adult outcomes.

It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.

It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

[M]y grandmother and I sit across from each other at the Gryphon Tea Room, on the grandest section of Bull Street.

Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.

The real affliction of old age is remorse.

I lie! I cheat! I steal!

No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.

People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.

Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

She'll make you take your clothes off and go dancing in the rain.