prepandemic occupants on-site at some point during the week. online job postings also reflect differences in remote work between large and small cities. in san francisco, 26% of postings permit remote work. in birmingham, alabama, that number is just 10.4%. there s debate of what drives the difference. is it work habits? commutes? in a moment, i m going to ask scott calloway what he thinks. a second story caught my eye the same day. it had to do with friendship and economic mobility and so much more. raj chedy and colleagues released a study, the social met works of 2.2 million users between 25 and 54. the searchers didn t have names or identities, but they were able to use zip codes to estimate income, college, and other characteristics. the conclusion that drove the headlines was theis. for the poor, the best ticket out of poverty is having wealthy friends. it s called economic connectedness. the more connections between the rich and the poor, the better the neighborhood wa
Smerconish is up next is it, 1968 . The sequel Michael Smerconish in philadelphia this week in a deja vu of the vietnam era, Police Officers in riot gear across the country were called in to disperse antiwar protesters from College Campuses when they cleared out columbia universitys hamilton hall, it was on the 56th Anniversary of police arrests, ending a Student Takeover about the Vietnam Conflict in the exact same building and this august even more deja vu, the Democratic National convention will take place in chicago the same city which hosted the 1968 dnc, which was famously disrupted by both chaotic radical antiwar protests and the violent response of the police a bit of history, 1968 included lbj deciding not to seek reelection because of vietnam. Four days later, the assassination of Martin Luther king junior race riots, then the assassination of democratic frontrunner robert f. Kennedy, the republican challenger, Richard Nixon, who had lost to jfk in 1960, was promising to end
perpetuates our coming apart. the better off continue as easily extend opportunity to the less fortunate when they don t cross paths. put it all together and what does it mean? it means that good things happen when we intermingle and have common experiences, the sort my father told me benefited him from his korean war experience. day one, people from different backgrounds all across the country suddenly reduced to the same haircut, uniform, cot, food. where you came from, that didn t matter. people lived and worked together. they had to build bridges. today, that, too, is lacking. every branch of the u.s. military now struggling to meet its fiscal year 2022 recruiting goals. fewer americans are choosing to serve their country in this fashion. and no doubt, when we re living in our bubbles, it perpetuates the political divide, further by gerrymandering and self-sorting. if there s so much data,